Kimber Simpkins - Full: How I Learned to Satisfy My Insatiable Hunger and Feed My Soul

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Kimbers courageous memoir fills a gap in the literature, exposing both the preoccupied suffering of an eating disorder and the healing that occurs when she satiates her spiritual hunger with the practice of yoga. As a therapist who works extensively with these issues, I highly recommend Full to anyone struggling with an eating disorder or who desires to strengthen their relationship to food, body, and self.

Signe Darpinian, author of Knock Out Dieting

If you can read only one memoir about eating disorder recovery, read Full. Kimbers writing is generously dosed with humor and wisdom, filled with marvelous insight, and never shies away from the difficulty of the undertaking. She brings the struggle and recovery alive on the page and makes it feel possible for all of us.

Tamara Gerlach, author of Cultivating Radiance

Step away from the scale, ditch the measuring tape, and chuck the BMI chart. Then settle in with a cup of tea and let Kimber guide you on her humorous and touching journey to leave diet talk behind and learn to listen toand loveher body. Full is a nourishing feast for the soul.

Linda Bacon, PhD, coauthor of Body Respect

Full is an exceptionally raw and honest sharing of Kimber Simpkinss struggle with anorexia, body image, and relationship with food, and how she overcame her negative thinking and found freedom and happiness within her body. I could relate to so much of what she wrote. If you have ever struggled with food or body image issues, I recommend Kimbers book as an insightful, inspiring resource for you!

Dina Proctor, author of Madly Chasing Peace

Kimber Simpkins is an authentic force for change on this planet, and this book is her torch. She leads the way in a new generation of women committed to removing the veil of shame and secrecy around our relationship to our body, food, and feelings. This book resonated with me on a deep level as a woman and a spiritual practitioner. I highly recommend Kimbers book for any woman who is ready to let down the burden of food and self-esteem issues. It has the potential to act as a catalytic force toward healing, and ultimately to living a more authentic life.

Katie Silcox, author of Healthy, Happy, Sexy

There is a hunger in all of us for satisfaction, and in this beautiful book we follow Kimber on her Odyssey through the actual hunger of the body, only to discover that it lives in the mind as well. This is a very moving, and often funny, story about Kimbers struggles with her inner anorexic; a story which points all of us toward healing. Full is stuffed with wit and wisdom.

Wes Scoop Nisker

As insightful for the person with an eating disorder or the clinician, Full gets you inside the underpinnings of the illness and its challenging recovery. Ms. Simpkins astutely walks you through her successful integration of opposite parts of her Self with passion and humor. A testimony to the power of imagination and a must-read for everyone who desires to love his or her body for what it is.

Eric Bottino, clinician at the Young Adult and Family Centers eating disorder program at the University of California, San Francisco

In Full, Kimber Simpkins opens her heart and offers her experience in an honest and heartfelt memoir. It will serve as a support and guide for all those who feel less than good enough. Anytime you pick up Full, you will be reminded that you are in good company on the path.

Sharon Salzberg, cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and author of Real Happiness and Real Happiness at Work

Full beautifully illustrates that anorexia is starvation of the soul as well as the body. The author portrays with hope and humor the labyrinthine path of recovery from an eating disorder, one that ultimately must include a loving partnership with ones own body.

Tamara Traeder, LMFT, LPCC

I fell in love with Fulls honesty and its humor. Kimber writes with a passion conveying her experiences intimately. I felt her presence, her struggles, and her success as if she were sitting next to me whispering into my ear! This book is certain to be a refuge and bible for all women struggling with body image.

Angela Farmer, world-renowned yoga teacher

Full should be savored like a long hike with a cherished friend. Kimber invites readers into her inner world, sharing her journey from secret body hating to public body loving, finally converting us into allies for self-acceptance and bodily celebration. This transformative book shows, and tells, readers how to cultivate a loving relationship with our bodies. A must-read for anyone who has struggled with body image.

Nishanga Bliss, DSc, LAc, author of Real Food All Year

Publishers Note

This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering psychological, financial, legal, or other professional services. If expert assistance or counseling is needed, the services of a competent professional should be sought.

Distributed in Canada by Raincoast Books

Copyright 2015 by Kimber Simpkins

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Cover design by Amy Shoup; Text design by Michele Waters-Kermes; Acquired by Catharine Meyers; Edited by Ken Knabb

Excerpt from Galway Kinnells Saint Francis and the Sow from Three Books. Copyright 1980 by Galway Kinnell. Reprinted with kind permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Simpkins, Kimber.

Full : how I learned to satisfy my insatiable hunger and feed my soul / Kimber Simpkins.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-62625-227-1 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-62625-228-8 (pdf e-book) -- ISBN 978-1-62625-229-5 (epub) 1. Simpkins, Kimber--Mental health. 2. Anorexia--Patients--Biography. 3. Anorexia--Patients--Religious life. 4. Yoga--Therapeutic use. 5. Buddhism. I. Title.

RC552.A5S57 2015

616.852620092--dc23

[B]

2014042454

The danger is not that the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but that, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

Simone Weil