This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide to Mind, Body, and Soul
Written by Geneen Roth
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“A beautiful, funny, deeply relevant” (Glennon Doyle) collection of
personal reflections from Geneen Roth, author of Women Food
and God
With an introduction by Anne Lamott, This Messy
Magnificent Life is a personal and
exhilarating read on freeing ourselves from daily anxiety, lack, and discontent.
It’s a deep dive into what lies behind our self-criticism, whether it is about
the size of our thighs, the expression of our thoughts, or the shape of our
ambitions. And it’s about stopping the search to fix ourselves by realizing that
on the other side of the “Me Project” is spaciousness, peace, and the capacity
to reclaim one’s power and joy.
After years of teaching retreats and workshops on
weight, money, and other obsessions, Roth realized that there was a connection
that held her students captive in their unhappiness. With laugh-out-loud humor,
compassion, and dead-on insight she reveals the paradoxes in our beliefs and
shows how to move beyond our past to build lives that reflect our singularity
and inherent power. This Messy Magnificent Life is a brilliant, bravura meditation on who we take ourselves to be, what enough means in our gotta-get-more culture, and being at home in our minds and bodies.
Whether she contemplates what it means to shop for the impossibly lovely blue
vest we don't need or releasing ourselves from shame about body size, Roth's
acute and luminous writing about meaning, joy–and heartache–is in every line.
And as she has previously done for readers with her eating guidelines, Roth
provides potent reminders and exhortations–"touchstones"–to help us break the
trance of discontent, quell the impulses of the past, and embrace our unique and
often unsung potential.