Why Am I So Angry My Search for the Truth
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Balboa Press, 2013
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- Título
- Why Am I So Angry My Search for the Truth
- Autor
- Gerondis, Helen
- Editorial
- Balboa Press
- Año de publicación
- 2013
- Estado
- New
- Encuadernación
- PAP
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 1452511071
- ISBN 13
- 9781452511078
- Peso del artículo
- 415 gramos
This book is about my search for the truth about what caused or contributed to my life- long weight problem. In spite of my consulting doctors, nutritionists, psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, joining Weight Loss organizations and trying numerous diets, nothing had worked.
Because my lecturer in his feedback on one of my assignments in a counselling course said if I spent as much time looking at the “Inside Helen”- as I had on the outside Helen, “The weight may come off and stay off ” I did as he suggested by writing this book.
I looked at myself as a Greek Australian baby, schoolgirl, adolescent and adult. I connected with feelings I had previously supressed or repressed. I discovered information about eating disorders and the brain which led me to the confronting but liberating realisation that since childhood I had an undiagnosed Binge Eating Disorder. Later I found this could have been the result of forgott en trauma which had alienated me from myself and other people.
Finding the truth and reconciling myself to the past has freed me from eating compulsively. My weight is within the normal BMI range and I weigh less now than I did as a child of eleven.
Kirkus Review:
A debut memoir explores personal causes of anger and weight issues.
Gerondis, of Greek-Australian extraction, grew up in Sydney and had a Roman Catholic education. She rejected religion because she believed a literal interpretation of the biblical Adam and Eve story (Genesis 2), which she first heard from nuns at age 9, had been used to justify the subjugation of women. Years later, she was astonished to discover another Creation account, in Genesis 1, that didn’t assign blame or inferior status to women. The author’s indignation at how inequality of the sexes has, in her view, been entrenched in Catholic doctrine and social policy thanks to Genesis 2 comes through clearly in her book. “Feeling that we have all been ‘hoodwinked’ is the greatest source of why I am so angry,” she writes. But there are numerous reasons for bitterness here, as the frequent “I am angry that…” statements attest. For instance, early disappointment over her lack of higher education led to comfort eating and weight gain. Her parents did not allow her to attend university; instead, she got a kindergarten teaching diploma and later embarked on multiple part-time degrees, including one in women’s studies, while raising her seven children with her husband, Jim. Although she eventually became the first Greek-Australian woman admitted to the bar of New South Wales, she could never practice law full-time because of family commitments. Gerondis effectively investigates the sources of her eating disorder and pinpoints ongoing resentments, giving this the flavor of a therapy session transcript. Indeed, the memoir arose from an assignment for her postgraduate diploma in psychotherapy and reflects a determination to pay more attention to the “inside Helen.” But the writing style is flat; in general, this feels more like a random assortment of memories than a narrative. Certain points are made multiple times, especially about Genesis and her husband’s obsession with sports. There’s also a reluctance to wrap up: the epilogue is followed by another 50 pages’ worth of personal updates and political developments.
While the author discovers why she’s angry, she chooses to focus on lingering grudges rather than present a redemptive or educative arc.
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HELEN GERONDIS was born in Sydney Australia, the elder daughter of Greek parents. She was not allowed to go to University when she left school, so she studied by correspondence when she had her first child and then enrolled at Sydney University studying Law in 1958.
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