Stable Weight
A Memoir of Hunger, Horses and Hope

Though I’ve never ridden a horse and have little equestrian knowledge, I found Lisa Whalen’s book powerful, inspiring, and relatable. The memoir, which is broken into three sections – Falling, Impact, and On Course, focuses on the lessons she learned from the ten horses she rode and how those lesson......more

A young woman tells of her upbringing, nervousness and perfectionism, which led her to feel both blaming and blamed when her boyfriend ditched her. Instead of the 'turnaround and do better' that we see in women's fiction, this lady went under from depression, a weight managing crisis which she'd bee......more

This is an intensely frank memoir chronicling the author’s journey of discovery and recovery from an eating disorder “with the help of a therapist and ten special horses.” The expansive, colorful narrative spans the author’s life from infancy on. It probes the social, cultural, psychological and oth......more