Ghost: Why Perfect Women Shrink

I am going to show you why your pain is invisible to everyone else and why in the struggle to be seen your body became your battlefield. From the outside your life looks polished. Youre talented successful strong. Your perfection safeguards you against suffering. Everyone assumes youre fine and you hide in plain sight.But the truth is that inside you feel like a fraud. From childhood youve been gaslighted by your own gifts. Good enough is impossible. But being perfect leaves no space to be human. You suffer in silence. You use your body as a canvas to scream your pain shrinking in a desperate bid to be visible. This book is my story and the story of women I have worked with. It is the story of how vulnerability will unlock your truth and set you free.Iona Holloway woke up one day and knew she could never go on another diet. She was willing to sacrifice her perfect body if it meant she felt whole-not lost ashamed and hopeless. She became her own guide on the hard journey of coming home to herself.Haunting vulnerable blunt and stunning Ghost is a story that reveals why strong women go to war with their bodies. In her debut memoir Iona Holloway explores lost childhood identity webs hot shame emotional freeze love and lineage to tell the story of how to change not just behaviours but beliefs. How to ask for help. How to let go of perfect.Now is not the time to shrink. This book wont heal you but it will help you find the heart to heal.