![]() The innovative format-which tells Jennifer’s story through blank verse and prose, with changes in tense and voice, and uses forms, workbooks, and journal entries-mirrors the protagonist’s progress toward a healthy body and mind. Johnson tells an inspiring story that is based on her own experience of being hospitalized for an eating disorder as a teenager. ![]() Johnson Decemby Karen Jensen, MLS Leave a Comment It may seem weird to talk about eating disorders in a week when we have been talking about food, but food is a complicated issue for a lot of people. Using her trademark dark humor and powerful emotion, J. Eating Disorders: Haunting the 616.85 Section, a MHYALit guest post by BELIEVAREXIC author J. Using her trademark dark humor and powerful emotion, J. She has to believeafter many years of being a believarexic. She has to believe-after many years of being a believarexic. ![]() She has to learn to trust herself and her own instincts, but that’s easier than it sounds. But when she finally confesses her secret to her parents and is hospitalized at the Samuel Tuke Center, her journey is only beginning.Īs Jennifer progresses through her treatment, she learns to recognize her relationships with food, friends, and family-and how each relationship is healthy or unhealthy. ![]() Jennifer can’t go on like this-binging, purging, starving, all while trying to appear like she’s got it all together. ![]()
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