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Enough

Notes from a Woman Who Has Finally Found It

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Enough

By: Shauna M. Ahern
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Like so many American women, Shauna M. Ahern spent decades feeling not good enough about her body, about money, and about her worth in this culture. For a decade, with the help of her husband, she ran a successful food blog, wrote award-winning cookbooks, and raised two children. In the midst of this, at age 48, she suffered a mini-stroke. Tests revealed she would recover fully, but when her doctor impressed upon her that emotional stress can cause physical damage, she dove deep inside herself to understand and let go of a lifetime of damaging patterns of thought.

With candor and humor, Ahern traces the arc of her life in essays, starting with the feeling of "not good enough" which was sown in a traumatic childhood and dogged her well into adulthood. She writes about finding her rage, which led her to find her enduring motto: enough pretending. And she chronicles how these phases have opened the door to living more joyfully today with mostly enough: friends, family, and her community.

Listeners will be moved by Ahern's brave stories. They will also find themselves in these essays, since we all have to find our own definition of enough.

©2019 Shauna M. Ahern (P)2019 Tantor Food & Wine Gastronomy Women Witty
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Great read and an awesome reminder that I am enough, exactly as I am.
Thank you

I am Enough

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Lovely read. I could relate to much of this. Thank you for your words on motherhood, alcoholism and Buddhism. 💕

Lovely

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My goodness this book is wonderful. In listening to it I feel healed of some of my own wounds. Shauna Ahern shares her story with candour and an open-armed sense of welcome. And always, there is good humour and optimism and a relishing of life.

Thank you, Shauna.

So glad to have read it

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