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Caroline Knapp
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In Appetites, Caroline Knapp confronts Freud’s famous question, "What do women want?” and boldly reframes it, asking instead: How does a woman know, and then honor, what it is she wants in a culture bent on shaping, defining, and controlling her desires? Knapp, best-selling author of Drinking: A Love Story and Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs, has turned her brilliant eye towards how a woman’s appetite - for food, love, work, and pleasure - has become a battlefield. She uses her own experiences with anorexia as a powerful exploration of what can happen when we are divorced from our most basic hungers and offers her own success as testament to the joy of saying "I want.”
Provocative, important, and deeply familiar, Appetites beautifullyand urgentlychallenges all women to learn what it is to feed both the body and the soul.
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Get ready to encounter a book that will change your experience as a woman in a powerful new way. Author, educator, and School of Womanly Arts founder Regena Thomashauer has been working with women for the past 25 years, and what began as just a few women in her living room has since grown into a global movement with thousands of graduates worldwide.
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Hippy Trippy Dilight
- By Steff Doles on 04-27-17
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I Don't Want to Talk About It
- Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
- By: Terrence Real
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
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Psychotherapist Terrence Real offers an important and compelling look at the silent epidemic of depression among men and shows, with compassion and clarity, what can be done to break this vicious cycle.
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Dated, Freudian take on subject with shock value
- By Matthew&Rebecca on 04-28-12
By: Terrence Real
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This Close to Happy
- A Reckoning with Depression
- By: Daphne Merkin
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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This Close to Happy is the rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman's perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime. Taking off from essays on depression she has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, Daphne Merkin casts her eye back to her beginnings to try to sort out the root causes of her affliction.
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I should be the last person to recommend this book
- By Mariaposa on 03-04-17
By: Daphne Merkin
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Girl in Need of a Tourniquet
- Memoir of a Borderline Personality
- By: Merri Lisa Johnson
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
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An honest and compelling memoir, Girl in Need of a Tourniquet is Merri Lisa Johnson’s account of her borderline personality disorder and how it has affected her life and relationships. Johnson describes the feeling of "bleeding out" unable to tell where she stopped and where her partner began. A self-confessed "psycho girlfriend," she was influenced by many emotional factors from her past. She recalls her path through a dysfunctional, destructive relationship, while recounting the experiences that brought her to her breaking point.
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Chaotic, disturbing, meaningless
- By BRB on 04-02-14
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An Apple a Day
- A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia
- By: Emma Woolf
- Narrated by: Emma Woolf
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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I haven't tasted chocolate for over ten years and now I'm walking down the street unwrapping a Kit Kat. Remember when Kate Moss said, 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels'? She's wrong: chocolate does. At the age of 32, after ten years of hiding from the truth, Emma Woolf finally decided it was time to face the biggest challenge of her life. Addicted to hunger, exercise and control, she was juggling a full-blown eating disorder with a successful career, functioning on an apple a day.
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A memoir of a silver spoon, maybe.
- By S. covely on 06-05-16
By: Emma Woolf
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Beauty Sick
- How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women
- By: Renee Engeln
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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Today's young women face a bewildering set of contradictions when it comes to beauty. They don't want to be Barbie dolls but, like generations of women before them, are told they must look like them. They're angry about the media's treatment of women but hungrily consume the very outlets that belittle them. They understand that what they see isn't real but still download apps to airbrush their selfies.
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No conclusion
- By Amazon Customer on 01-15-21
By: Renee Engeln
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Hungry for More
- Satisfy Your Deepest Cravings, Feed Your Dreams and Live a Full-Up Life
- By: Mel Wells
- Narrated by: Mel Wells
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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After the success of her first book, The Goddess Revolution, which was all about fostering a healthier relationship with food and your body, Mel Wells helps you dive deeper into your food and body psychology. As a health coach, Mel believes that our unwanted eating habits could actually be pointing us in the direction of our soul's true calling and that our addictions reveal something much greater than cravings for caramel lattes - they reveal a need for love, connection, intimacy, and the feeling of being truly seen and understood, in spite of all our failures and flaws.
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fantastic
- By Dara on 07-17-18
By: Mel Wells
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Unrequited
- Women and Romantic Obsession
- By: Lisa A. Phillips
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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The summer Lisa A. Phillips turned 30, she fell in love with someone who didn't return her feelings. She soon became obsessed. She followed him around, called him compulsively, and talked about him endlessly. One desperate morning, after she snuck into his apartment building, he picked up a baseball bat to protect himself and began to dial 911. Her unrequited love had changed her from a sane, conscientious college teacher and radio reporter into someone she barely recognized.
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Great book! So-so narrator....
- By ToluGrace on 04-14-15
By: Lisa A. Phillips
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The Men on My Couch
- True Stories of Sex, Love, and Psychotherapy
- By: Brandy Engler, David Rensin
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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When Dr. Brandy Engler opened her sex therapy practice for women in Manhattan, she got a big surprise. Most of the calls were from men. They wanted to talk about womanizing, porn addiction, impotence, prostitutes - and most of all, love.
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Not what you'd expect
- By J Lee on 03-26-13
By: Brandy Engler, and others
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Capture
- Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering
- By: David A. Kessler MD
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
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Why do we think, feel, and act in ways we wish we did not? For decades, New York Times best-selling author Dr. David A. Kessler has studied this question with regard to tobacco, food, and drugs. Over the course of these investigations, he identified one underlying mechanism common to a broad range of human suffering. This phenomenon - capture - is the process by which our attention is hijacked and our brains commandeered by forces outside our control.
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Confused
- By TS on 05-17-16
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How to Be Sad
- Everything I’ve Learned About Getting Happier by Being Sad
- By: Helen Russell
- Narrated by: Helen Russell
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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Helen Russell has researched sadness from the inside out for her entire life. Her earliest memory is of the day her sister died. Her parents divorced soon after, and her mother didn’t receive the help she needed to grieve. Coping with her own emotional turmoil — including struggles with body image and infertility — she’s endured professional and personal setbacks as well as relationships that have imploded in truly spectacular ways. Even the things that brought her the greatest joy — like eventually becoming a parent — are fraught with challenges.
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More an self biography
- By Jaime Murillo on 04-27-24
By: Helen Russell
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The Emotional Edge
- Discover Your Inner Age, Ignite Your Hidden Strengths, and Reroute Misdirected Fear to Live Your Fullest
- By: Crystal Andrus Morissette
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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The Emotional Edge is an exciting expansion of Crystal's successful brand - she has tackled weight management, confidence building, and spiritual growth; now she combines all that and more into her most powerful program yet. The Emotional Edge is a guide for letting go of the past and embracing a more empowered future. This audiobook is spiritual self-help designed to teach listeners how to overcome behavioral ruts and engage the world from a happier, more empowered place.
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the world needs more of this.
- By Amber Jessop on 11-25-17
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So Long, Insecurity
- You've Been a Bad Friend to Us
- By: Beth Moore
- Narrated by: Beth Moore
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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Perhaps one of the biggest issues all women face is their own insecurity. Beth Moore, one of today's most admired and trusted Christian writers, wants women to be free from the insecurity trap. So Long, Insecurity will strike a chord with women everywhere, as Beth speaks truth into the lives of listeners, showing them how to deal with their innermost fears, rediscover their God-given dignity, and develop a whole new perspective.
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AMAZING!
- By Jackie on 01-25-16
By: Beth Moore
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- Jessica Yas Barker
- 01-31-17
I just love Knapp's writing so much
Her prose is so beautiful and I just find myself in my car, slowly nodding along or sometimes yelling "yes! Yes!" to so much of what she has to say about women, girls, and our perceptions of ourselves. She articulates what I feel agitatedly and artfully.
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- R Hilux
- 04-29-15
More emotional than practical
Knapp is a good writer with a poetic prose, but sometimes it's too littered with cliches and unnecessary drama. I'm a straight forward type of communicator/reader so I found this book to be too maudlin for my taste. Although the book contain some statistics and research to back up the author's points about how we live in a culture where women are subject to feelings of intense worthlessness thus an insatiable appetite to fill their void, this is an emotional book that contain more narrative of the author's pain and struggles in said culture than practical solutions.
The narration was top notch though. The narrator read with passion, so much that I initially suspected that the author herself had narrated this book, only to find that Knapp had died at the young age of early forties to cancer.
I can see how some people could really enjoy this book, especially if they found the words to resonate with their own struggles to feel that they are not alone. Although I can identify with Knapp's voice and struggles, I've already done my own emotional work and prefer books that contain more practical solutions over melancholic ranting.
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- Rachel Carter
- 05-02-21
Always Wise
Caroline...AlwaysWise...Her truth is beautiful.
I don’t have daughters - yet I can see how my Appetite habits have had an impact on my sons.
I am grateful for the awareness that Caroline shares. It helps to fortify my own.
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- Susie
- 04-29-13
The Heart of Compulsion and Control
Some things to know about Caroline Knapp:
She was the daughter of the noted psychiatrist Peter H. Knapp; she was a successful reporter for the Boston Phoenix; and she wrote a bestselling book about being a high functioning alcoholic called, Drinking: A Love Story. She died in 2002 of lung cancer before this book was published.
These influences make Appetites truly compelling. Knapp’s questions; why women want, and how do women identify and demand their wants, have psychological grounding. She uses her reporting skills on herself and the broader culture to try and answer some of these questions.
The eating disorder theme in this book is an obvious draw, but Knapp makes pointed discussion of the relationship between women, food, and desire; how stunted desires can express themselves in all kinds of ways, from sex-addiction to compulsive shopping.
The lovely foreword by Knapp’s friend, reporter Gail Caldwell, was so intoxicating and affecting, I got lost in it. I forgot it was the introduction.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-07-18
Important Read
This is such an important read for women (and men, honestly) to see the way we circumvent our actual desires with surface wants. Food, shopping, sex, etc. can never satisfy our deeper desires, and so it’s a never ending cycle. I highly recommend this book!
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- Brandie M.
- 07-02-17
Blunt reality, witty humor, and a romantic twist
Caroline Knapp simultaneously romanticized her addictions and provided insightful details about the underlying issues. Her story addresses both her personal and larger societal issues of women trying to fill an internal void. Her intelligent creativity was witty, blunt, and elegant.
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- katherine
- 05-16-16
Spoiler Alert: Blame the mothers and men
The further into this book I got, the more displeased I was at its content. It lacks anything profound or fresh and seems to endlessly pin women as victims of circumstances and culture.
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- David A. Narlee
- 03-01-23
All excellent but the sibulance
5 for story, performance, etc. unfortunately 0 for the irritating sibullance of the poorly managed voice-sound control.
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- Jamie
- 06-15-23
A life changing book
This book is a must read for women and perhaps any man wishing to better understand women.
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- Kellye
- 11-21-24
Amazing
Amazing book and amazing narration. I’m just saying more crap now so that I’m done
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