The me, without : a year exploring habit, healing, and happiness

The me, without A year exploring habit, healing, and happiness

Jacqueline Raposo

Book - 2019

"At the age of thirty-four, journalist Jacqueline Raposo finds herself sick, single, broke, and wandering in a fog. Despite decades of discipline, her chronic illness is getting worse. Despite hosting a radio show about dating, she hasn't been in love in years. And despite a successful writing career, she's deeply in debt. Weary of trying to solve her problems by adding things to her life, she attempts the opposite and subtracts some of her most constant habits -- social media, shopping, sugar, and negative thoughts -- for periods of thirty to ninety days over the course of one year. In this intimately curated search for self-improvement (a quest that readers can easily personalize for themselves), Raposo confesses to the som...etimes violent and profound shifts in her social interactions, physical health, and sense of self-worth. With the input of doctors, psychologists, STEM experts, and other professionals, she offers fascinating insights into how and why our brains and bodies react as they do to our habits. She also sheds light on the impact of our everyday choices on our mental state. Part memoir, part case study, this book offers you an inspiring example of how to forge your own journey, expose your wounds, and help yourself heal."--Page [2] of cover.

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Subjects
Habit breaking.
Change (Psychology)
Happiness.
Self-realization.
Published
Mineola, New York : Ixia Press 2019.
Language
English
Main Author
Jacqueline Raposo (author)
Physical Description
xii, 244 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244).
ISBN
9780486826882
  • An Invitation
  • A Prologue
  • Chapter 1. No Social Media
  • Chapter 2. No Shopping
  • Chapter 3. No Sugar
  • Chapter 4. No Holiday Gifting
  • Chapter 5. No Negative Thought
  • Chapter 6. Multiple Challenge!
  • Chapter 7. No Waste
  • Chapter 8. No Hustle
  • Chapter 9. Multiple Challenge Two!
  • Chapter 10. No Habit
  • An Epilogue
  • Your Year, Without
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Rapaso, cohost of the podcast Love Bites, opens up about her need to disengage in her eloquent debut, a memoir and meditation on living with less. After contracting Lyme disease and become very sick, Raposo realizes she isn't handling her own problems well enough to be giving advice to listeners and starts looking into her own unhealthy habits. She wondered whether her lifestyle of cycling between excess (eating, drinking, and socializing) and introversion was worsening her Lyme disease, stalling her career as a food writer, and making her less lovable. So she dropped one habit per month in an attempt at self-betterment. She cut out, among other things, social media, shopping, and sugar. She spent Christmas with her family without giving or receiving gifts and attempted to slash all negative thinking. These changes were not easy, and she didn't always succeed (TV was particularly hard for her to give up). Along with her experiences, Raposo presents research and her own interviews with relevant experts, among them Andrea Sanders, director of Be Zero, who speaks of the merits of recycling, and science journalist Gary Taubes, who alleviated some of Raposo's concerns about sugar. By the end, Raposo writes that eliminating bad habits helped her find happiness by realizing "I am enough the way I am." She concludes with suggestions for readers to explore doing without for themselves. Raposo's engaging report on stripping life down will inspire readers looking for manageable tweaks to hectic living. (Jan.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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