On Being Human

'Beautiful and tender, profound and absorbing. I never wanted to put it down' , Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild 'A gritty and passionate memoir' , Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love Centered around the touchstone stories Jen tells in her popular workshops, On Being Human is the story of how a starved person grew into the exuberant woman she was meant to be all along by battling the demons within and winning. Jen did not intend to become a yoga teacher, but when she was given the opportunity to host her own retreats, she left her thirteen-year waitressing job and said "yes," despite crippling fears of her inexperience and her own potential. After years of feeling depressed, anxious, and hopeless, in a life that seemed to have no escape, she healed her own heart by caring for others. She has learned to fiercely listen despite being nearly deaf, to banish shame attached to a body mass index, and to rebuild a family after the debilitating loss of her father when she was eight. Through her journey, Jen conveys the experience most of us are missing in our lives: being heard and being told, "I got you." Exuberant, triumphantly messy, and brave, On Being Human is a celebration of happiness and self-realization over darkness and doubt. Her complicated yet imperfectly perfect life path is an inspiration to live outside the box and to reject the all-too-common belief of "I am not enough." Jen will help readers find, accept, and embrace their own vulnerability, bravery, and humanness.

'Beautiful and tender, profound and absorbing. I never wanted to put it down' , Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild 'A gritty and passionate memoir' , Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love Centered around the touchstone stories Jen tells in her popular workshops, On Being Human is the story of how a starved person grew into the exuberant woman she was meant to be all along by battling the demons within and winning. Jen did not intend to become a yoga teacher, but when she was given the opportunity to host her own retreats, she left her thirteen-year waitressing job and said "yes," despite crippling fears of her inexperience and her own potential. After years of feeling depressed, anxious, and hopeless, in a life that seemed to have no escape, she healed her own heart by caring for others. She has learned to fiercely listen despite being nearly deaf, to banish shame attached to a body mass index, and to rebuild a family after the debilitating loss of her father when she was eight. Through her journey, Jen conveys the experience most of us are missing in our lives: being heard and being told, "I got you." Exuberant, triumphantly messy, and brave, On Being Human is a celebration of happiness and self-realization over darkness and doubt. Her complicated yet imperfectly perfect life path is an inspiration to live outside the box and to reject the all-too-common belief of "I am not enough." Jen will help readers find, accept, and embrace their own vulnerability, bravery, and humanness.

On Being Humanis an insightful collage of human experience and psychodynamics. Here, Mee Hee Douglas explores the topics of narcissism, independence, parenting, relationships, grief, and the forces of everyday capitalism on our minds. She draws upon her 20 years of psychotherapy practice to dispel narrow, populist ideas of mental health spawned from modern capitalism-she provides distilled but wide ranging antidotes to labels and panaceas.On Being Humanurges us to re-humanise mental health as our ability to stay with the context and realities of our lives; to remain true to ourselves; to be faithful to our lives in the presence of forces that constantly tell us that there is something inadequate or wrong with us.

On Being Human is an insightful collage of human experience and psychodynamics. Here, Mee Hee Douglas explores the topics of narcissism, independence, parenting, relationships, grief, and the forces of everyday capitalism on our minds. She draws upon her 20 years of psychotherapy practice to dispel narrow, populist ideas of mental health spawned from modern capitalism-she provides distilled but wide ranging antidotes to labels and panaceas. On Being Human urges us to re-humanise mental health as our ability to stay with the context and realities of our lives; to remain true to ourselves; to be faithful to our lives in the presence of forces that constantly tell us that there is something inadequate or wrong with us.