This was an interesting book. It proves that despite all the problems one might have, there is light at the end of the tunnel.

I love this book. I can learn many good things about anxiety within. It gave new perception and it was amazing

This is a pretty good book that talks about anxiety, depression, eating disorders, alcohol abuse and family trauma. The more books I read and the more exploring I do with my own family dynamics, I want to scream when families don't just say exactly what they are thinking and feeling. Anyway, there's Spanish sprinkled in throughput the book and I can't decide if it's cool or distracting. I enjoyed reading this book and am glad for the opportunity to an advanced read.

This was such an eye-opening book about the struggles that young women go through, especially multi-cultural young women.

Yvonne’s story is very relatable as she tells of all the things she went through as a child and into adulthood.

Yvonne is a proud woman born to a Mexican mother and a Cuban father. Yvonne growing up found a lot of anxiety from seeing her mothers nervios and has high expectations on herself from her fathers hard work ethic. Combined to cope as a teenager this eventually turned into an eating disorder for Yvonne who shares candidly her life experiences and shares openly about her experiences and methods of her eating disorder.

This was an incredible memoir to read. I loved how raw Yvonne shared her experiences and the touches of española as someone who is slowly learning it.

Thank you NetGalley and Santa Monica Press for this ARC!

4.75/5 stars

This book started out so well. I enjoyed the way Castañeda began to weave together the story of her life, the events that led to the struggles listed in the subtitle. It seemed like she was leading up to the point where she would talk about her breakthrough moment and how she began to heal from the various traumas and struggles. That didn't happen. For the last 15% of the book, she kept making poor decisions and of lot of it did not make narrative sense because she did not make the the timeline portion once she graduated from college clear at all. The only bit of resolution came in the epilogue where she is applying for to a social work degree program and apparently has made a lot of positive changes but none of this narrative shows anything about them.

This book never got going for me. The writing was too slow and I ended up not caring about the story at all.

I am very picky about the books I read. I need them to go at a quick pace and don't care much for a ton of details and this book just bogged down.

What a brave book all about food and body image and shame… all the things I have also dealt with growing up. The story was very relatable and I liked the writing style.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC. 5stars!

I couldn't get through the book... excuses for this, excuses for that. She became a perfectionist because of her parents...she ate too much b/c they never had enough. Not what I was expecting.