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By the time my fortieth birthday loomed, I'd married, had two kids, left the country of my birth for another and picked up plenty of baggage along the path. I was long overdue for a spiritual spring-clean. But I couldn't very well take a year off to meditate in an ashram. Who was going to make the lunchboxes? So instead, I opted for doing something about the fatty deposits on my rear-end before they fossilized. And that's where this story begins. Or so I thought. *** A photo of herself in a bikini on her son's fifth birthday led Joanne Fedler to take stock of her life. How had she reached a point where she could barely look at her own body without cringing? Armed only with the certainty that she did not want to be 'fat and forty' Joanne decided it was time to get rid of the excess weight she'd been carrying for far too long. While on a strict new eating plan in which she radically changed her relationship with food, Joanne began to see it wasn't only pounds she needed to lose, but the weight of fear, guilt and anxiety she was lugging around in her heart. In making friends with hunger and dropping a few dress sizes, Joanne found greater peace not only with her body, but with herself, her life and her adopted country. What began as a mission to get back into a bikini became a journey towards acceptance, proving that a spiritual journey can start by saying 'no' to the chocolate mousse. When Hungry, Eat is a celebration of unexpected spiritual insight, small portions and the gifts of hunger.

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Joanne is the internationally bestselling author of 15 books, including Secret Mothers' Business, Things Without a Name, and Your Story: how to write it so others will want to read it. Her books have been translated into many different languages and have sold close to 750 000 copies worldwide.Born in Apartheid South Africa, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study law at Yale, was a law lecturer and a volunteer legal counsellor at People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA) before setting up and running a legal advocacy centre to end violence against women. She was appointed by the then Minister for Justice to sit on a project committee of the Law Commission to design new domestic violence legislation.In 1996 Joanne was awarded a residency at Hedgebrook Women's Writer's Colony in Seattle where she began to write her first novel, The Dreamcloth (2005, Jacana Media). Other awards include Asshole of the Month, a title she was proud to accept from Hustler magazine in 1995 for her advocacy work around gender equality and the rights of all people to be free from violence.She runs writing retreats for women all over the world and online writing courses including her signature Author Awakening Adventure and Write Your First Draft Masterclass. In 2017, she set up her own publishing company Joanne Fedler Media to publish the stories of the writers she has mentored. She hopes to keep bringing these stories into the world.Someday she hopes to set up a writer's colony, grow her own vegetables, own five cats and live in a place where she will never be stuck in traffic.Connect with Joanne on social media or join her mailing list here: www.joannefedler.com

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