Not Just Me: Anxiety, depression, and learning to embrace your weird - Couverture souple

Jakub, Lisa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1548088080 ISBN 13 : 9781548088088

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Lisa Jakub has always been a little weird. Sensitive. Emotional. Introverted.What else would you expect from a former child actor turned writer?But the issue wasn’t just an artistic temperament; Lisa was constantly trying to hide her debilitating anxiety and depression. She assumed that retiring from her eighteen-year acting career and leaving Hollywood was going to be the cure for all of her issues. Guess how that worked out? Lisa was still having three panic attacks a day and found it hard to leave her house. But when anxiety-induced vomiting claimed the life of her iPod—she knew it was time to get help. It was time to talk about the things that are hard to talk about. She started to embrace her weird. In searching for a deeper understanding of mental wellness, Lisa explored her own history and reached out to others to learn how anxiety and depression impacted their lives. She interviewed Veterans with PTSD and ten-year-olds with sensory integration issues, people with eating disorders and cutting habits, those whose lives were saved by medication and those who found yoga to be the answer. She went to Colorado to learn about the effects of cannabis on anxiety, and attended a meditation retreat in North Carolina to sit quietly for hours and hours and hours in “noble silence.” Without a phone.Not Just Me is a hopeful, entertaining, enlightening look at the root causes of anxiety, the latest research on mood disorders, and ideas for how we can all live authentically with more peace, power, and purpose. Part memoir, part journalistic exploration—this book reminds all of us that we are not alone.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lisa Jakub is a writer, speaker, and retired actor. She grew up in Hollywood, as a child actor who appeared in more than forty movies and television shows during her eighteen-year career. She worked on such blockbusters as Mrs. Doubtfire and Independence Day, as well as critically-acclaimed films such as Rambling Rose, A Walk on the Moon and Matinee. Not wanting to become a child actor stereotype, Lisa retired from the film industry at the age of 22, in search of a path that felt more authentic to her. She moved to Virginia and found that passionate life she was looking for when she became a writer. Her first book was a memoir, You Look Like That Girl, which was published in 2015. Not Just Me is her second book. Lisa has appeared on HuffPost Live, MSNBC, CTV, BBC and CNN. Her writing has been featured in Newsweek, Today.com, Huffington Post, NY Daily News, DailyMail, LA Times, Yahoo, AOL, Parade, Elephant Journal, Thought Catalog, Yoga Magazine and US Magazine. Lisa does speaking events at high schools, colleges, and conferences where she runs workshops about writing, anxiety, mindfulness, and living an authentic life. She is also a Kripalu yoga teacher and loves teaching yoga to people who think they can't do yoga. Lisa lives in Virginia with her husband, Jeremy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1548088080
• ISBN 13: 9781548088088
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 290
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg