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Title details for My Body Is a Big Fat Temple by Alena Dillon - Available

My Body Is a Big Fat Temple

An Ordinary Story of Pregnancy and Early Motherhood

by Alena Dillon
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"Alena Dillon is one of my favorite writers and to read her journey through pregnancy is a great joy and heartbreak." - Amy SchumerMy Body Is A Big Fat Temple, a memoir of pregnancy and early motherhood, follows a writer as she debates having children, miscarries, faces morning sickness, uncertainty, physical impairments, labor, breastfeeding, the \u201cbaby blues,\u201d the heartache of not loving her son as she thinks she should, parenting through a plague, until finally (basically, mostly) blossoming into her new identity.The undertaking of creating life is airbrushed to preserve the ideal of motherhood, and exacerbated by a culture that dictates what women can do and how they should feel. We don\u2019t get the full story, so mothers with unromantic experiences feel like aberrations, and worse, alone. This is why the voices of women matter. The voices of mothers matter. Here\u2019s one to remind you of the important thing

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    November 3, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9781949116885

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      • ISBN: 9781949116885
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    • English

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