Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today

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An honest look at being a woman in midlife, offering fellow women a blueprint for aging into loving oneself.”— USA Today Some of Valerie's tips are: tidy your mind; exercise; eat lots of fruits and vegetables; be kind; try new things; laugh loudly and often; be grateful; love; and more. Impact on Indigenous women, members of the gender and sexually diverse community, people living with disabilities, immigrant and refugee women, and others Beloved actress, Food Network personality, and New York Times bestselling author Valerie Bertinelli reflects on life at sixty and beyond.

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The passages about her son and ex are all quite touching and I agree with her new approach to the next 20 years (plus or minus) of her life. However, I found the book much too repetitive to be enjoyable. I ended up skimming until I found passages of interest. This is the most unpretentious celebrity confession book I’ve ever read. When you ‘connect’ in friendship with someone, whether it’s through their writing or in person, it’s easier to take their advice and life-lessons to heart. Valerie makes it clear that she’s not preaching from a higher place, but that we’re all in this together, we’re all connected. As she says more than once, she’s literally grown up on-screen with us. This book is a biography, a self-help guide, a cookbook, and yes, if you were enthralled with Edward Van Halen too, it’s their never-ending love story, too.Bertinelli's wealth and privilege were a little too much for me, too, like hearing about the plans to completely rebuild her oceanfront dream house (not her main house, which she also rebuilt, this is a huge property she also maintains on a cliff above the ocean). She's earned it and good for her, but I don't necessarily want to read about how happy she is that she's finally moving forward on tearing down her old beach dream house to build a new even fancier one. It seems a little tone deaf in light of many people's situations right now regarding the pandemic and how much so many people are struggling. The actor and Food Network host dishes up delightful recipes as she reflects on how she learned to see beyond a troubled self-image and embrace joy.

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My thanks go to Net Galley and Harper Collins for the review copy. This book will be available to the public Tuesday, January 18, 2022. In case you haven't gotten you hands on Valerie's memoir yet — signed copies are still available at Barnes and Noble and Books a Million — Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today details the her rise to fame, her journey to body confidence, her family and her marriage to the late Eddie Van Halen. English–Arabic English–Bengali English–Catalan English–Czech English–Danish English–Hindi English–Korean English–Malay English–Marathi English–Russian English–Tamil English–Telugu English–Thai English–Turkish English–Ukrainian English–Vietnamese I literally bawled like a baby when she wrote about Eddie's passing. I felt like I lost someone in that moment, it was so profound.From the outside looking in Valerie seemed to have had a very successful life. When Valerie hit 60 though, she felt she wasn't really happy. Writing about that time, she says, "I feel like I have neglected myself while spending my entire life doing what I think will please everybody else. Publicly, I have pretended to be the bubbly, upbeat, all-American girl everybody wants to believe I am, but in private I have rarely thought of myself as anything but a failure." And Valerie decided to do something about it. I have never been a fan of Valerie Bertinelli nor watched her seventies series "One Day at a Time", but because she was married to iconic guitarist Eddie Van Halen, my interest was piqued. I was never a particular fan of him either, but after having read some biographies on him this past year, my admiration/appreciation of him blossomed. Much of it was frustrating to read and somewhat boring. She insists on including eight recipes at various places in her stories, which reinforces her love of food but detracts from the rest of the book. She certainly represents a large number of women with low self-esteem and constant nervousness, but to see it on paper is somewhat embarrassing because it never seems to get resolved. And while she says that she understands the way to become happy is to simply "choose happy," she doesn't often seem to actually do that. Access resources based on current research, recognized best practices and current case law. Note: this is not legal advice.

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Workplace sexual harassment is not limited to the office. It can occur at work parties, on business trips, during conferences, at work-sponsored events, etc. With the help of a mind coach, Valerie was able to learn how to deal with emotional pain without using food as a crutch. And she learned to see happiness not as an end goal, but as something to strive for every day. Valerie had her epiphany during the Covie-19 pandemic, so much of her healing had to be done alone. Because I like biographies/memoirs and cookbooks- I just don't recall ever seeing them combined together in one book.Can I say Valerie’s journey towards self-love inspired me in any way personally? Sure- I think some of her advice to herself is solid. All of us should practice self-care, but there was nothing in that way I have not heard before. Still, there's a good list of things to do that are worth being reminded of- but we all have to do the work ourselves. To be a guinea pig or an experiment. Where does this phrase originate from? I have an international collegue that I was trying to describe the meaning but didn't know why we used the phrase. Others took the opportunity to express their gratitude with Valerie for sharing her story and being vulnerable. "I am absolutely loving the book! It is so insightful and genuine. You are beautiful inside and out. [You're] an inspiration to so many women. ❤️ Thank you for being truthful to you."