Research Catalog

Title

iWant : my journey from addiction and overconsumption to a simpler, honest life / Jane Velez-Mitchell.

Author

Velez-Mitchell, Jane

Publication

Deerfield Beach, Fla. : Health Communications, c2009.

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Description

xx, 268 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

The author relates how her experiences trying to overcome addictions has helped her be more self-aware, embrace her ethnic identity, and accept her sexual orientation.

Alternative Title

I want

Subject

• Velez-Mitchell, Jane
• Velez-Mitchell, Jane > Philosophy
• Journalism
• Compulsive Behavior > rehabilitation
• Alcoholism > rehabilitation
• Alcoholics
• Women television journalists > United States > Biography
• Television journalists > United States > Biography
• Recovering addicts > United States > Biography
• Conduct of life
• Lifestyles > United States > Case studies
• Alcoholism > United States > Case studies
• Compulsive behavior > United States > Case studies
• Life Style

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Case studies
• Autobiography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-253)

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Growing up : I want to fit in -- Career : I want to be somebody -- Therapy : I want to be myself -- Sobriety : I want to stop boozing -- Veganism/animal activism : I want to make a difference -- Coming out as gay : I want to be in love -- Workaholism : I want to stop being a slave -- Addiction hopping : I want to stop eating compulsively -- Codependency : I want to be enough -- Overconsumption : I want to stop buying -- Environmentalism : I want to save my world -- Into action : I want you to join me.

ISBN

• 9780757313714
• 075731371X

LCCN

^^2009023435

OCLC

• 316037868
• SCSB-10907573

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library