This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide
Written by Geneen Roth
Narrated by Geneen Roth
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About this audiobook
With an introduction by Anne Lamott, This Messy Magnificent Life is a personal and exhilarating read on freeing ourselves from daily anxiety, lack, and discontent. It’s a deep dive into what lies behind our self-criticism, whether it is about the size of our thighs, the expression of our thoughts, or the shape of our ambitions. And it’s about stopping the search to fix ourselves by realizing that on the other side of the “Me Project” is spaciousness, peace, and the capacity to reclaim one’s power and joy.
This Messy Magnificent Life explores the personal beliefs, hidden traumas, and social pressures that shape not just women’s feelings about their bodies but also their confidence, choices, and relationships. After years of teaching retreats and workshops on weight, money, and other obsessions, Roth realized that there was a connection that held her students captive in their unhappiness. With laugh-out-loud humor, compassion, and dead-on insight she reveals the paradoxes in our beliefs and shows how to move beyond our past to build lives that reflect our singularity and inherent power. This Messy Magnificent Life is a brilliant, bravura meditation on who we take ourselves to be, what enough means in our gotta-get-more culture, and being at home in our minds and bodies.
Geneen Roth
Geneen Roth is the author of ten books, including the New York Times bestsellers When Food Is Love, Lost and Found, and Women Food and God, as well as The Craggy Hole in My Heart and the Cat Who Fixed It. She has been speaking, teaching groundbreaking workshops, and offering retreats for over thirty years and has appeared on numerous national shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, 20/20, the Today show, Good Morning America, and The View. For more information about her work, please visit GeneenRoth.com
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5lovely review of all the important guidelines for embracing life as it is, along with the good and the bad and the everything, liked it a lot, it has brought me a sense of peace and understanding
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Just listening to Geneen Roth’s calming voice makes this book worth listening to, but the content is even better. A real gem!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5So true and so insightful. A must , loved it so much.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I will listen to this over and over. This is THE text for me right now. Amazing.