Being Ana: A Memoir of Anorexia Nervosa
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (879 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072Q1HBDT |
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| Number of Pages | : | 259 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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She lives in the Bay Area of California with her son. Shani Raviv is a published writer, writing coach, copywriter/content producer, and speaker who was born and raised in South Africa. . She disputes the belief that an anorexic mindset is a life sentence and considers herself fully recovered
John Deninno, clinical psychologist and eating disorder elective instructor, Bastyr University“Shani Raviv is a great inspiration to the many millions out there struggling with eating disorders. I know it will make them better therapists.”Dr. Her book Being Ana is honest, sensitive, witty, brutal, and so much more.”Graham Alexander, MA (Clin.Psych.)(UCT), Director of Crescent Clinic Eating Disorders Unit“Being Ana is not only an insightful, raw, and thought-provoking memoir detailing a subject most people know little about, it is also a work by an author who understands how to present a difficult subject with humor and aplomb. Raviv is a fabulous writer and did an amazing job of simultaneously showing how her eating disorde
a new look While this book was very well written and the story engaging, my favorite part was reading an anorexia memoir from someone not born and raised in the US. This culture has become so saturated with talk of diets and being thin, it's almost not surprising when someone develops an ED. However, other countries seem to have a much healthier relationship with food, so it was interesting . why Kindle Customer I thought it would focus more on her eating disorde. I like to read more about how they deal with it but it didnt. I have read better.. "A beautiful memoir" according to Serena C.. This whole book was a journey with this girl, as she gave in, and eventually battled her anorexia. She is honest and thorough, and will make you feel for her throughout the book. She doesn't sugar-coat or promote this eating disorder, she simply tells the story of what it did to her, and about what she had to do to start along the path to recovery.
She goes from aerobics addict to Israeli soldier to rave bunny to wannabe reborn, using sex, drugs, exercise and, above all, starvation, to numb out everything along the way. Shani Raviv is a misfit teen whose peer-pressured diet spirals down into full-blown anorexia nervosa—something no one in her early-nineties, local South African community knows anything about. Being Ana is an exploration into the soul and psyche of a young woman wrestling with anorexia’s demons—one that not only exposes the real horrors of a day in the life of an anorexic girl but also reveals the courage it takes to stop fighting and find healing.. Fourteen-year-old Shani spends the next six years being “Ana” (as many anorexics call it), on the run from her feelings. Three years later, her hardest journey of all begins: the journey to let go of being Ana and learn to love herself. But one night, at age twenty, Shani faces the rude awakening that if she doesn’t slow d