Stephanie Krikorian

Zen Bender (eBook, ePUB)

A Decade-Long Enthusiastic Quest to Fix Everything (That Was Never Broken) (Self-Confidence for Women, Personal Growth)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Searching for That Self-Help High

"Inspiring and hilarious, Zen Bender perfectly captures our misguided quest for perfection...." - Patricia Velasquez, actress in Arrested Development and The Mummy, author of Straight Walk, supermodel, and UNESCO Artist for Peace.

Yahoo Finance Best Business Books of 2019 and #1 New Release in Yoga, Zen Philosophy, and Humor

Craving a quick fix. When the recession turned her life upside down, Stephanie Krikorian had to reinvent her life...and fast. She started ghostwriting self-help books for women. Between writing and researching she realized that everywhere she looked there was AFOG (another freaking opportunity for growth). Soon she wasn't just writing each book; she was living them. This was the start of a ten-year zen bender of dieting, dating, journaling, meditating, and Marie-Kondo-ing on a quest for that ultimate self-help high.

Fifty and fabulous. Stephanie Krikorian spent her forties trying all of the dating hacks to find love and respect, all of the diets to build self-esteem in a new body, and all of the spiritual guidance to become centered through self-care. On the brink of turning fifty she realized that being better wasn't what she craved; it was something else altogether.

A Self-confidence book for women. For anyone tired of promises to change everything in just thirty days, this book is a breath of fresh air. Zen Bender is the story of one woman's journey to radical acceptance, with some questionable advice along the way. A witty, moving, insightful story, the woman behind bestselling celebrity self-help books shares her story of being hooked on the self-help fix for a decade before learning that all the self-help in the world won't help you trust your gut.

Readers who enjoyed self-confidence books for women like The Universe Has Your Back, The Self-Love Experiment, or The Gifts of Imperfection; will love Zen Bender: A Decade-Long Enthusiastic Quest to Fix Everything (That Was Never Broken).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mango Media
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781642500301
• Artikelnr.: 57079083

Autorenporträt

My Decade Long Zen Bender Right around when I turned 40, everywhere I looked there was AFOG. Another f&@king opportunity for growth. And just like a bag of chips, I assumed that if all of those fixes were sitting right there in front of me, I should most definitely be consuming them. Not doing so seemed downright irresponsible. It started out innocently enough-with a gateway drug of sorts: the vision board. But my need for a quick hit soon ballooned into an insatiable craving for multiple fixes such as juice-fast retreats, coaches of all kinds, full-weeks Marie-Kondo'ing my house, journaling protocols, psychics, workshops, and self-help books. Like a meteor shower, the world was force-feeding me spiritual seminars, gurus, and life-altering reads, and I grabbed at them all, hoping for...well some big change so I could be better in every way humanly possible. All the fixes were so radical. No small steps, just monumental overhauls promised with a few weeks of work. For nearly a decade, I was on this high-speed chase with balance, enlightenment, growth, and betterment-over-guruing myself with near desperation in an effort to be the best I could be. It was a noisy decade that resulted in a couple of major Zen benders. And then, with the flick of a switch, I stopped thanks to an epiphany I had right before my 49th birthday. I realized that despite all the promises and pursuits, being better wasn't what I craved; it was something else altogether.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Note to Reader
Prologue
Part 1: Reeling
Chapter 1
My Gateway Drug: The Vision Board
Chapter 2
The End of Everything
Chapter 3
You Can Eat Your Dinner or Drink Your Dinner, But You Can't Do Both
Part 2: Dealing
Chapter 4
Fat Women Don't Get Frenched
Chapter 5
Numerologists, Clairvoyants, and Healers, Oh My!
Chapter 6
The Melrose Place of It All
Chapter 7
The Life-Changing Magic of Tapping into an Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
You Didn't Know You Had
Chapter 8
Never Judge a Clairvoyant by the Lampshade on Her Head
Chapter 9
No Diet Left Behind
Part 3: Healing
Chapter 10
When A-Types Spa
Chapter 11
Any Direct Flight
Chapter 12
The Beginning of Everything
Chapter 13
When Your Healer Jumps the Shark
Acknowledgments
About the Author