Believarexic

Asking for help is only the first step. Jennifer cant go on like thisbinging, purging, starving, and all while trying to appear like shes got it all together. But when she finally confesses her secret to her parents and is hospitalized at the Samuel Tuke Center, her journey is only beginning. As Jennifer progresses through her treatment, she learns to recognize her relationship with food, and friends, and familyand how each is healthy or unhealthy. She has to learn to trust herself and her own instincts, but thats easier than it sounds. She has to believeafter many years of being a believarexic. Using her trademark dark humor and powerful emotion, J. J. Johnson tells an inspiring story based on her own experience when she was hospitalized for an eating disorder as a teenager. The innovative format using blank verse and prose, changes in tense and voice, and forms, workbooks, and journal entries mirror Jennifers progress toward a healthy body and mind.