Something For You...
You are about to get (or have just got) an Amazon voucher in your email inbox as a thank you from me. I want you to spend it on something that will make you f eel good!
If you want ideas for a book, audiobook or movie - here are some below.
*Note on audiobooks* Amazon sells audiobooks, but also has their massive audiobook store, Audible. Audible sells audiobooks, but also has a monthly membership. For some insane reason, you cannot spend Amazon vouchers in the Audible store. (????...Nope, me either). Basically you can spend Amazon vouchers at Amazon but not Audible.
*Note on audiobooks* Amazon sells audiobooks, but also has their massive audiobook store, Audible. Audible sells audiobooks, but also has a monthly membership. For some insane reason, you cannot spend Amazon vouchers in the Audible store. (????...Nope, me either). Basically you can spend Amazon vouchers at Amazon but not Audible.
Here are some suggestions:
BOOKS
*For emotional eating*: The Language of Emotions by Karla McLaren. An invaluable reference, with a chapter on the real function of all the emotions and the soul-saving messages they have for you. The single most important book I have read that has helped me reclaim my life from food. Some challenging ideas, but liberating like nothing else I have ever read.
*For challenging your inner victim*: The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday (available on Audible too, and read by the author). Very readable antidote to useless positive thinking, this book shows you that no matter what your history has been, you CAN always do something.
*For challenging your inner resistance*: The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. This is written ostensibly to help writers and artists get over their creative blocks, but it goes way beyond that and speaks very eloquently to all kinds of resistance. Pressfield very cleverly put it together in very very short chapters, and it is a very short book. You can use it as a quick fix of motivation, or read it in one two hour sitting.
MOVIES etc
Sunshine Cleaning (2009) - quirky, thought-provoking and funny in places, this has so much to tell us about connecting to your power, moving through toxic shame, the blessings in disguise that apparent disasters can offer us and changing the lens we see disability through. For a film about someone who cleans up crime scenes, it is surprisingly non-gory (the filmmakers know they have a target female audience).
The Fisher King (1991) - deals with the themes of guilt, redemption, and the power of symbols to help us reclaim our lives. Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges are perfect, but the female characters are also brilliant, notably Amanda Plummer who has her own journey of empowerment.
Fight Club (1999) - one man's road to rejecting conformity, airbrushed perfectionism and banishing insomnia, all with the help of soap...and Brad Pitt.