{"id":1206,"date":"2017-11-05T21:26:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T21:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2017-11-05T21:26:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T21:26:44","slug":"codenpendence-eating-disorders-abortion-as-well-as-many-others-im-fine-and-other-lies-by-whitney-cummings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/codenpendence-eating-disorders-abortion-as-well-as-many-others-im-fine-and-other-lies-by-whitney-cummings\/","title":{"rendered":"Codenpendence, Eating Disorders, Abortion as Well as Many Others…”I’m Fine…And Other Lies”, by Whitney Cummings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"I'm<\/a>You expect a book by Whitney Cummings<\/a>, stand-up comic, actor and creator\/co-creator of two network sitcoms, including the long-running “Two Broke Girls” would be funny. What you wouldn’t expect is that her memoir “I’m Fine … And Other Lies” would be such a frank, deeply moving account of her experiences with codependence, eating disorders, abortion, consent, fertility as well as many others.<\/p>\n

“I feel I had dealt with a lot of my codependence<\/a> in my personal life and professional life but it still was rearing its ugly head in other ways,” she told me. “Codependence is like a game of whack-a-mole. You think you’ve dealt with one part, another part pops up.”<\/p>\n

“I so badly wanted everything to be easy that I ignored reality,” she continued. “The same mentality can be, ‘Oh, this guy will change. He’s done this with every other woman but if I just love him enough, he’ll change.’ Or, ‘My boss yells at me every day but if I just dress a certain way or get this brief in on time, she’ll stop.’ These things that we tell ourselves to self-soothe but ultimately end up putting us in dangerous situations, for me is a slippery slope.”<\/p>\n

The theme of her book mimics her comedic style. There will be honesty and humor enough for any \u201c2 Broke Girl\u201d fan.<\/p>\n

Get your digital audio<\/a> copy today!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You expect a book by Whitney Cummings, stand-up comic, actor and creator\/co-creator of two network sitcoms, including the long-running “Two Broke Girls” would be funny. What you wouldn’t expect is that her memoir “I’m Fine … And Other Lies” would be such a frank, deeply moving account of her experiences with codependence, eating disorders, abortion, … Continue reading “Codenpendence, Eating Disorders, Abortion as Well as Many Others…”I’m Fine…And Other Lies”, by Whitney Cummings”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25,11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiobooks-in-general","category-based-on-true-story","category-interesting-audio-books","category-self-help-audio-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}