Ask the Author: Callie Bowld
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Callie Bowld
Well, since summer has come and gone, here are a couple of books from my winter reading list:
- Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia; by Marya Hornbacher
- Good Girls Do Swallow: The Darkly Comic True Story of How One Woman Stopped Hating Her Body; by Rachael Oakes-Ash
- Lying in Weight: The Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women; by Trish Gura
Having finally written my own story about my struggle with an eating disorder, I find it helps me stay strong and healthy by reading others� accounts and their victories. It still shocks me to see such striking similarities between myself and others who suffered, too, who had completely different upbringings, backgrounds, interests, and challenges than I had. It reminds me the disease is blind. It doesn’t care who you are or how strong you are. It just takes over.
- Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia; by Marya Hornbacher
- Good Girls Do Swallow: The Darkly Comic True Story of How One Woman Stopped Hating Her Body; by Rachael Oakes-Ash
- Lying in Weight: The Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women; by Trish Gura
Having finally written my own story about my struggle with an eating disorder, I find it helps me stay strong and healthy by reading others� accounts and their victories. It still shocks me to see such striking similarities between myself and others who suffered, too, who had completely different upbringings, backgrounds, interests, and challenges than I had. It reminds me the disease is blind. It doesn’t care who you are or how strong you are. It just takes over.
Callie Bowld
What Goes Down started as a journal of healing: just me, telling myself my own stories (all of the awful things I did to my poor body). But, I felt--to truly apologize to my body and forgive myself--I needed to acknowledge them. Then, I was shocked by the revelation that I needed to laugh at some of them, as that was the moment I first believed I could truly heal, when I could finally start to laugh a little about it. Then I knew I had to get it out there so others could feel it, and laugh, too.
Callie Bowld
It is the privilege to harness the power of words, and the thoroughly satisfying challenge I feel when I try to make myself write something in a shorter version, then shorter, then shorter still. The power of the few thrills me!
Callie Bowld
How about I do it in one : ) -- I passed the Bar Exam and became a lawyer.
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