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Ana Louise Bonasera presents
✨Stretched✨A mother's journey to love her 'flaws' and how you can too.
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Ana Louise Bonasera's best selling book Stretched: A mother's journey to love her 'flaws' and how you can too. An honest account of events as Ana enters motherhood and has to deal with her body after baby. Postpartum body image and maternal mental health are an ongoing problem, if you struggle take a read and see that you're not alone.
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Stretched
Ana Louise Bonasera is a mother of four, who has battled with her reflection in the mirror her whole life. When she became a mother for the first time she started to long for the body she spent most of her life mentally and physically abusing.
In this teaching memoir Ana shares with you her pinnacle moments in a raw and real account from desperation to obsession to dating to suffocation to finding love.
As a woman, a mother, a friend, get ready to be empowered to start learning to love your body ‘flaws’ and all.
In this teaching memoir Ana shares with you her pinnacle moments in a raw and real account from desperation to obsession to dating to suffocation to finding love.
As a woman, a mother, a friend, get ready to be empowered to start learning to love your body ‘flaws’ and all.
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If you’ve ever looked in the mirror and felt disgusted you’re not alone.
If you’ve ever sobbed on the end of your bed after trying on a million different outfits and feel too fat to wear any of them you’re not alone. If you’ve ever been out and compared yourself to everyone else in the room constantly putting yourself down then you’re not alone. If you’ve ever failed a diet, started a new one and failed again you’re not alone. |
I used to think I was the only one but when I started to write my book ‘Stretched: A mother’s journey to love her ‘flaws’ and how you can too’ I realised I wasn’t.
I have shared all my lowest points, been brutally honest and left myself vulnerable for the world to see BECAUSE I want women to know they’re not alone.
Speak out, get help, support however you can. We’re all here for you if you need some love.
I have shared all my lowest points, been brutally honest and left myself vulnerable for the world to see BECAUSE I want women to know they’re not alone.
Speak out, get help, support however you can. We’re all here for you if you need some love.
Stretched timeline...
I spent so long battling my body, from being a teenager thinking I was fat (when I really wasn't), to being a new mum and being ashamed by all of the changes and 'flaws' that postpartum brought, to obsessing over the scales, never feeling like enough, addicted to exercise, to changing my mindset, to loving who I am 'flaws and all'.
It's been one hell of a journey and it's been scary to be so vulnerable in my book, but I'm ready to share and hopefully help other women break up with the scales and realise their beauty and worth!
With love & gratitude,
Ana Louise Bonasera
It's been one hell of a journey and it's been scary to be so vulnerable in my book, but I'm ready to share and hopefully help other women break up with the scales and realise their beauty and worth!
With love & gratitude,
Ana Louise Bonasera
Read an extract on the blog...
You’re disgusting. Your body will never be the same again, you will never be able to wear a bikini, your body is ruined. I remember looking at myself in a floor to ceiling double door wardrobe mirror as I was house sitting just a few weeks after having my first child at just 20 years old, these evil thoughts about my new postpartum body popped into my head. I felt so vulnerable looking in that mirror. All I saw was completely alien to me, I was so caught up in the moment of just how different I look I had forgotten what my body had been through...
