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Click on a link to buy from Buy from your favorite retailer: Original trade paperback $18.95 | 264 pp | ISBN 9781597190053 | Adobe PDF, ePub & Mobipocket Ebook $9.99 | ISBN 9781597190367 PDF of promotional flyer with excerpt | Author info | Read Pearlsong Press blog posts on Ellen & her book | Beyond Measure website: www.beyondmeasureamemoir.com | Ellen Frankel's author website | Library Request Form (PDF)
Ellen shares the difficulties of living short in a world in which stereotypes are based on gender and size. She moves beyond her own experience into the political realm in revealing how pharmaceutical companies—with government backing—are expanding the market for human growth hormone treatment by reclassifying healthy short children as patients in “need” of such injections in hopes of making them taller. She shares the dilemma of being subjected to simultaneous messages that her physical body should be bigger—that is, taller, but not wider—while her expansive spiritual body should be smaller. Self-destructive behaviors emerge from too much attention on the external rather than the internal workings of the soul. Ellen flirts with eating disorders and unhealthy relationships with powerful males in an attempt to compensate for her feelings of not “measuring up.” In the process, her real self slips farther away. The path out of her dilemma lies in the shadow of the tallest mountain on Earth. It is through a spiritual pilgrimage to Nepal that Ellen discovers her own strength and spirit, and that we are all dwarfed by Everest and beyond measure.
PRAISE for Beyond Measure "If you have ever measured your height or weight and felt
good or bad about yourself as a result, you need this book. In its pages, Ellen
Frankel makes an important contribution to human liberation by telling the most fabulous story that can be
told, the story of a person coming fully into her own. This book
is thought-provoking, heart-rending, and a genuine solace for people of all
sizes."
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