A key way to do this is to acknowledge the strides you make toward whatever your goal is. It’s important to find ways to motivate and validate yourself. I think most of us crave external validation, but I know external validation is fickle. I try to remind myself that my self-worth has nothing to do with my body. I try to do small things to make myself feel better, whether it is going for a walk or watching a movie. On bad days, I allow myself to feel bad because I know it is not going to last forever.
#THE BOOK HUNGER BY ROXANE GAY HOW TO#
On bad days, though, I forget how to separate my personality, the heart of who I am, from my body.” How do you stay encouraged on such bad days? What is your view on staying motivated for a person who is in constant want of validations that accompany weight loss from others? Question: In chapter 41, you said, “On better days, when I feel up to the fight, I want to change how this world responds to how I look because, intellectually, I know my body is not the real problem. In answering questions from an Our Shared Shelf discussion, one question struck me as important to mention in this post: She told Amoruso, “The things that challenge me the most are the most intellectually satisfying.” When they spoke about her book and body image, she said it was possible to be happy with your body and to do that you have to be kind and gentle with your body. When she decided to write Hunger, she had told herself that writing about her body was the one thing she wanted to write about the least. Gay has been a writer since she was about 4 years old, as well as being an avid reader. Her interview with Sophia Amoruso gave me more of an understanding of the book after I read it. The first time I heard about Hunger, and Roxane Gay for that matter, was listing to the relaunch of Girlboss Radio.
As someone who has been sexually assaulted and raped, I understand how she wanted to protect her body from being hurt again and yet it is constantly hurt until we learn to accept who we are and who we have become. by Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author) 4.18 Rating details 95,037 ratings 10,886 reviews From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself. It is also one of the many that have spoken to me. Hunger became part of the list last year for the months of September and October. I have read many of the books that have been part of the reading list. When it first started, I jumped on board as I was fairly new to the whole feminist thing. In 2016, Emma Watson started the feminist book club, Our Shared Shelf.