Starving in Search of Me - by Marissa Larocca (Paperback)

About the Book

This confessional self-help guide explores the complex emotional truth of what it's like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. Activist author Marissa LaRocca's revelatory tale includes her struggle with her secrets including sexuality and how she emergedas an outspoken advocate for gay rights and women's health issues

Book Synopsis

This confessional self-help guide explores the complex emotional truth of what it's like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. Activist author Marissa LaRocca's revelatory tale includes her struggle with her secrets including sexuality and how she emergedas an outspoken advocate for gay rights and women's health issues

From the Back Cover

FINDING THE COURAGE TO BE YOURSELF This intimate account of courage and the search for truth and meaning will have you rooting for Marissa LaRocca as she unravels the emotional layers of her own battle with food, body image, and sexuality. Readers of this _ercely self-aware memoir, _Starving in Search of Me, will relate to the coming-of-age story of a young woman confronting some of life's major questions while concealing an eating disorder along with pieces of her identity. Through her inspiring triumphs and revelations, activist author Marissa LaRocca invites us all to confront ourselves honestly, asking, "What if, at the root of all 'disorders, ' is the refusal to acknowledge or permit certain feelings--feelings that, if witnessed, have the power to free their sufferers? To what extent are 'disorders' actually doorways to helping us understand the truth about our lives?" "Starving In Search of Me_is a true companion piece for anyone who has ever struggled with food or themselves. Marissa dives deep into the emotional layers we all struggle with and offers readers a compassionate voice and the opportunity to simply be themselves." --Lindsey Smith, author of_Eat Your Feelings "Now more than ever before, young people need courageous voices like Marissa's to guide and reassure them that what makes them different is what makes them beautiful. If you've ever struggled with an eating disorder, or another form of self-harm or addiction, this book will resonate and gracefully navigate you toward hope, meaning, and light. Marissa has accomplished something substantial here--she's found a way to articulate in words the intangible depths of an experience that is hers, and all of ours." --Kate "Fruit" Flowers "A thoughtful and enlightening meditation on identity and self-acceptance. A lesson in how to surrender." --Aydian Dowling, LGBTQ Activist