This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide Audiobook (Free)

Geneen Roth, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Ladies Food and God, explains how to take the journey to find one’s personal best self within this “gorgeous, funny, deeply relevant” (Glennon Doyle) collection of personal reflections.

With an introduction by Anne Lamott, This Messy Magnificent Life is an individual and exhilarating read on freeing ourselves from daily anxiety, absence, and discontent. It’s a deep dive into what is situated behind our self-criticism, whether it is about the size of our thighs, about This Messy Magnificent Existence: A Field Guideline the appearance of our thoughts, or the form of our ambitions. And it’s about halting the search to repair ourselves by recognizing that on the far side of the “Me Project” is spaciousness, serenity, and the capability to reclaim one’s power and joy.

This Messy Wonderful Life explores the non-public beliefs, hidden traumas, and interpersonal pressures that form not just women’s feelings about their systems but also their confidence, choices, and romantic relationships. After years of teaching retreats and workshops on excess weight, money, and various other obsessions, Roth recognized that there is an association that held her learners captive in their unhappiness. With laugh-out-loud laughter, compassion, and dead-on insight she reveals the paradoxes in our beliefs and shows how exactly to move beyond our previous to create lives that reflect our singularity and natural power. This Messy Wonderful Life is an excellent, bravura meditation on who we take ourselves to become, what plenty of means in our gotta-get-more culture, and coming to home in our minds and bodies.