Asking for help is only the first step Jennifer can't go on like thisbinging, purging, starving, all while trying to appear like she's got it all together. But when she finally confesses her secret to her parents and is hospitalized at the Samuel Tuke Center, her journey is only beginning. As Jennifer progresses through her treatment, she learns to recognize her relationships with food, friends, and familyand how each relationship is healthy or unhealthy. She has to learn to trust herself and her own instincts, but that's easier than It'sounds. She has to believeafter many years of being a believarexic. Using her trademark dark humor and powerful emotion, J. J. Johnson tells an inspiring story that is based on her own experience of being hospitalized for an eating disorder as a teenager. The innovative formatwhich tells Jennifer's story through blank verse and prose, with changes in tense and voice, and uses forms, workbooks, and journal entriesmirrors the protagonist's progress toward a healthy body and mind.

 

There are 466 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by Peachtree Publishers .