This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide

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Synopsis

Geneen Roth, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Women Food and God, explains how to take the journey to find one’s own best self in this “beautiful, funny, deeply relevant” (Glennon Doyle) collection of personal reflections.

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.

Chapters

  • ThisMessyMagnificentLife 01 Title

    Duration: 32s
  • ThisMessyMagnificentLife 02 Prologue

    Duration: 06min
  • ThisMessyMagnificentLife 03 Part1Ch1

    Duration: 20min
  • ThisMessyMagnificentLife 04 Ch2

    Duration: 03min
  • ThisMessyMagnificentLife 05 Ch3

    Duration: 08min
  • ThisMessyMagnificentLife 06 Ch4

    Duration: 12min
  • ThisMessyMagnificentLife 07 Ch5

    Duration: 10min
  • ThisMessyMagnificentLife 08 Ch6

    Duration: 15min
  • ThisMessyMagnificentLife 09 Ch7

    Duration: 07min
  • ThisMessyMagnificentLife 10 Part2Ch8

    Duration: 13min
  • ThisMessyMagnificentLife 11 Ch9

    Duration: 21min
  • ThisMessyMagnificentLife 12 Ch10

    Duration: 17min
  • ThisMessyMagnificentLife 13 Ch11

    Duration: 14min
  • ThisMessyMagnificentLife 14 Ch12

    Duration: 12min
  • ThisMessyMagnificentLife 15 Ch13

    Duration: 08min
  • ThisMessyMagnificentLife 16 Ch14

    Duration: 07min
  • ThisMessyMagnificentLife 17 Part3Ch15

    Duration: 15min
  • ThisMessyMagnificentLife 18 Ch16

    Duration: 06min
  • ThisMessyMagnificentLife 19 Ch17

    Duration: 10min
  • ThisMessyMagnificentLife 20 Ch18

    Duration: 04min
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