Things I Did When I Was Hangry: Navigating a Peaceful Relationship with Food

I have read this book twice now and loved it both times. It was written with a profound gentleness and skill which is sorely needed these days. I think almost anyone can find something about the author highly relatable which makes the book a joy to read.

Although a central theme of this wonderful book is navigating a peaceful relationship with food, it could just as easily been named Navigating a Peaceful Relationship with Living. Annie walks us through the story of her life as a way to relate and share the rough edges we all go through but are sometimes ashamed to share with others. We hide our pain and develop coping mechanisms that are sometimes very destructive. She’s naming these mechanisms and showing a way out to a healthier, happier life. Sharing such personal difficulties is so incredibly brave and deeply generous of spirit and, I believe, she has done so to help others find peace and the ability to move beyond suffering and hidden pain. It is only in the surfacing of it, the gentle acknowledgment and listening to it, that we can begin to heal. This book is a large gem on my bookshelf and I plan to give it as a holiday gift to everyone I can because within the chapters are gifts and keys to living that can set one free. Not only this but there’s also delicious recipes that I cannot wait to try. Thank you, Annie, for this book. And thank you to everyone who made it possible.

As I read this book cover to cover (I was shocked I could not put down a book about food!) I got to better understand and appreciate my, dare I say, relationship with food. Ms Mahon brings to life the realism of how we all (deny it all you want!) deal with food to cope with every day issues - including the family dynamic. How deep it runs parallel with pretty much every behavior we create for ourselves. Addictive personality or not food is the driver in how we spend time with family and friends, how we see the world, and interact with our communities. Her deep and personal confessions around her struggles paint such a, at times, heart wrenching, fascinating narrative of the power of food over her. For anyone looking not for a preachy yet informative and deeply personal look into one persons journey to healthier nutritional lifestyle I highly recommend this book. As she so eloquently put it in the book - to become "mindful" of what we eat is as important as how mindful we are of every other aspect of our lives.

With so many books out there about mindfulness and spiritual practice, it can be difficult to find one that has all the ingredients to really make an impact- honesty, grit, humor, deep wisdom, practical methodology, strong knowledge base, readability. Things I Did When I was Hangry has all the right things to make an extremely readable and powerful journey into addiction and mindfulness. This is a book i will refer to many times and will recommend to my own students and friends. It not only leads the reader into a authentic engagement of themselves - the good, the bad and the ugly - buy then takes those raw materials and lovingly offers very specific and useable practices for transforming a life. Annie's style is real, fierce and compassionate. She courageously bares her own messy process, which invites the reader to be gentle and loving with their own. She guides us from wherever we are in our development and skillfully nudges us into the next step in the process.

This is a great book as I know the author. The title is an interesting title but once you open the book you will see the love of how one woman overcame her anxiety and relationship with food and how her path has brought her to help others within their journey. I would recommend this book to all.

I’m not a foodie, or a cook and I do not practice yoga or meditation,I’m not a foodie, or a cook and I do not practice yoga or meditation,but I love this book! What I love most are the author’s honest revelations about her life. By the time I got past the introduction on mindful eating and began reading 1. STARTING from SCRATCH, I found myself gripped bythe life of a teenager who learned how to hypnotize herself in order to find calmThis is a courageous memoir. It begins with Mahon’s food disorders and insecurities and concludes with the spiritual practice that she now uses to empower others.

Though Annie Mahon wrote this book about her relationship with food in such an intimate, personal, spiritual way that I felt like I was talking to her one-on-one on my back porch. She offers me new avenues to being with myself on a spiritual bases with practical daily guild to bring awareness and change. I have read a lot of books about "unpleasant habits" but Annie has given me something I have needed all of my life. It is a book that goes far beyond food, it can be about alcohol, drugs, nicotine or any other foul habit.

This book is a great gift. Annie Mahon shares her deep personal experiences with food and mindfulnessin this personal and highly readable book. Through shedding light on her family history and personalchallenges with food, Annie shows how we can connect more deeply with ourselves around praciticingmindfulness in relation to food.The recipes in the book are a nice touch. Through sharing her story, it helped me to reflect on myrelationship to myself and food.