About the book:
The journey toward healing starts with a single brave step--but it is never walked alone
Mel Ellis knows that her eating disorder is ruining her life. Everyone tells her rehab is her best option, but she can't bring herself to go. Broke, broken, and empty in more ways than one, Mel launches one last-ditch effort to make hers a story worth telling. She will walk her own road to recovery along the lesser-known trails of the North American wilderness.
Though she is physically and mentally unprepared to face the difficulties that lay ahead, she sets off on foot from Michigan. Her goal? Mount Rainier National Park in Washington State. During the long journey, she meets strangers with their own stories, as well as ghosts from her past who can no longer be ignored. But though the land she travels threatens her success at every turn, it's her own dark thoughts she'll have to overcome in order to find peace in the life and the body she has been given.
Mel Ellis knows that her eating disorder is ruining her life. Everyone tells her rehab is her best option, but she can't bring herself to go. Broke, broken, and empty in more ways than one, Mel launches one last-ditch effort to make hers a story worth telling. She will walk her own road to recovery along the lesser-known trails of the North American wilderness.
Though she is physically and mentally unprepared to face the difficulties that lay ahead, she sets off on foot from Michigan. Her goal? Mount Rainier National Park in Washington State. During the long journey, she meets strangers with their own stories, as well as ghosts from her past who can no longer be ignored. But though the land she travels threatens her success at every turn, it's her own dark thoughts she'll have to overcome in order to find peace in the life and the body she has been given.
My review:
I started out reading this book thinking what is up with this girl that she would go on this trip in her condition. I thought she was crazy and while I still think so, it ended up being an amazing journey of self-discovery as she learned so much about herself and her flawed beliefs about God through the many people she met who took the time to care about her. Each person she met had some wisdom for her she needed to hear and showed up at just the right moment when she couldn't go on. I've never been up close with someone who I knew struggled with this mental illness so it was hard sometimes to hear the destructive thoughts Mel had about herself. At the same time she was pretty funny and I felt like strangling her and laughing with her almost in the same breath. I was pretty angry with her mom for some of the stuff she said and also sad because she doesn't understand grace at all, from God or how to give it. There's a little bit of romance as Mel thought back on a past relationship. The writing was wonderful and I'd highly recommend this book for the emotional and satisfying journey!
I received this book free from Revell. I was not compensated for this review. All opinions are my own.
About the author:
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Laurie Burin Autumn Lytle
Autumn Lytle identifies with a strange group of humans who enjoy running long distances and writing even longer books. Along with being a forever-recovering anorexic and exercise addict, she is a weirdly good checkers player and finder of four-leaf clovers....
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