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ON BEING HUMAN
A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard
An inspirational memoir about how Jennifer Pastiloff's years of waitressing taught her to seek out unexpected beauty, how deafness taught her to listen fiercely, how being vulnerable allowed her to find love, and how imperfections can lead to a life full of wild happiness.
Centered around the touchstone stories Jen tells in her popular workshops, On Being Human is the story of how a starved person grew into the exuberant woman she was meant to be all along by battling the demons within and winning.
Jen did not intend to become a yoga teacher, but when she was given the opportunity to host her own retreats, she left her thirteen-year waitressing job and said "yes," despite crippling fears of her inexperience and her own potential. After years of feeling depressed, anxious, and hopeless, in a life that seemed to have no escape, she healed her own heart by caring for others. She has learned to fiercely listen despite being nearly deaf, to banish shame attached to a body mass index, and to rebuild a family after the debilitating loss of her father when she was eight. Through her journey, Jen conveys the experience most of us are missing in our lives: being heard and being told, "I got you."
Exuberant, triumphantly messy, and brave, On Being Human is a celebration of happiness and self-realization over darkness and doubt. Her complicated yet imperfectly perfect life path is an inspiration to live outside the box and to reject the all-too-common belief of "I am not enough." Jen will help readers find, accept, and embrace their own vulnerability, bravery, and humanness.
Jennifer Pastiloff has been featured on Good Morning America, New York Magazine, People, Glamour, Jezebel, CBS News, SELF Magazine, oneOeight TV, Oprah.com, Salon, Modern Loss, and more. Because of her work, hundreds of thousands of people follow her on social media and she has grown friendships with many writers in her same category, including Elizabeth Gilbert, Cheryl Strayed, Lena Dunham, Rachel Brathen, Lidia Yuknavitch, Christy Turlington, and others who would enthusiastically help promote her book. She has cultivated a passionate community of readers and writers who follow her on every platform, including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and her websites jenniferpastiloff.com and TheManifestStation.net. When she is not traveling, she is based in Los Angeles with her filmmaker husband and son.
Jen did not intend to become a yoga teacher, but when she was given the opportunity to host her own retreats, she left her thirteen-year waitressing job and said "yes," despite crippling fears of her inexperience and her own potential. After years of feeling depressed, anxious, and hopeless, in a life that seemed to have no escape, she healed her own heart by caring for others. She has learned to fiercely listen despite being nearly deaf, to banish shame attached to a body mass index, and to rebuild a family after the debilitating loss of her father when she was eight. Through her journey, Jen conveys the experience most of us are missing in our lives: being heard and being told, "I got you."
Exuberant, triumphantly messy, and brave, On Being Human is a celebration of happiness and self-realization over darkness and doubt. Her complicated yet imperfectly perfect life path is an inspiration to live outside the box and to reject the all-too-common belief of "I am not enough." Jen will help readers find, accept, and embrace their own vulnerability, bravery, and humanness.
Jennifer Pastiloff has been featured on Good Morning America, New York Magazine, People, Glamour, Jezebel, CBS News, SELF Magazine, oneOeight TV, Oprah.com, Salon, Modern Loss, and more. Because of her work, hundreds of thousands of people follow her on social media and she has grown friendships with many writers in her same category, including Elizabeth Gilbert, Cheryl Strayed, Lena Dunham, Rachel Brathen, Lidia Yuknavitch, Christy Turlington, and others who would enthusiastically help promote her book. She has cultivated a passionate community of readers and writers who follow her on every platform, including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and her websites jenniferpastiloff.com and TheManifestStation.net. When she is not traveling, she is based in Los Angeles with her filmmaker husband and son.
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Published 2019-06-04 by Dutton |