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Author Bio
For
the book, What Your Mama Can’t or Won’t Teach You: Grown
Women’s Stories of Their Teen Years, Esther spent an entire
year interviewing over 25 Canadian women of all different ages, ethnicities,
sexual orientations, and socio-economic backgrounds about their experiences
of being a teenager in the era they grew up in and the wisdom they
have gained since then.
At the age of 35, Esther proudly and openly admits that she has over 13 years of solid recovery from an eating disorder that nearly ended her life when she was a teenager. She says, “I’m a living example that severe eating disorders do not have to be a life sentence and recovery is entirely possible and achievable. Once I had a lot of recovery myself, I made the decision to devote my career to preventing eating disorders and other self-harming behaviours in young women.”
In her work as a psychotherapist who specializes in treating teen girls with eating disorders, depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and self-harming behaviours, Esther quickly discovered that teen girls are at severely high risk because they live in a culture where thinness and unrealistic beauty standards are the ideal. Because they are so young and vulnerable to outside influence as they try to figure out who they are, they look to ‘ plastic’ “ Barbie doll” images in the mainstream media and try desperately to emulate them. Because these ideals are virtually impossible to emulate, they often starve themselves in attempt to meet the ‘ideal’, which ends up leading them into dangerous eating disorders, depression, and other self-harming behaviours.
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Esther Kane, MSW
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Book Guides Teens on the Rocky Road to Womanhood
(Courtenay, BC, August 31, 2006) – After becoming fed up with the lack of healthy, strong, female “role models” to guide young women on the rocky road to womanhood, Esther Kane, MSW, Registered Clinical Counsellor, came up with a solution. She has just completed a must-have “guidebook to womanhood” for teen girls called, “What Your Mama Can’t or Won’t Teach You: Grown Women’s Stories of Their Teen Years.”
Esther wanted to provide teen girls with stories of difficulties overcome and hope that things will one day become easier with the wisdom gained through life experience. She based the concept of the book on psychological research that shows that girls and women learn in relation to other girls and women and do their best when they have guides and mentors along the path to womanhood.
Esther says of the book, “ It’s high time that young women have female role models who they can relate to and who live regular lives like them. Looking to movie stars and models for guidance on being a healthy, strong woman with high self-esteem is like going to the hardware store for bread- you simply won’t find it there.”
Esther wanted to make sure that this book covered as many of the most important things teen girls wanted to know about, so she interviewed a wide array of teen girls and asked them what the most important topics were.
As a result of their feedback, Esther asked women about these topics and within their detailed answers, this is what young women will learn by reading it:
- How to confidently surf the wild waters of adolescence
- The positives of becoming a woman and what you can look forward to
- What to do and not to do in romantic relationships
- Finding your passion in life
- How to make, save, and manage your money
- How to deal with losses and endings in a self-loving way
- Getting in touch with your spirituality and using it as a strength you can lean on during tough times
To order either a copy of the book either in e-book or paper copy, go to: www.guidebooktowomanhood.com.
Information Sheet
What Your Mama Can’t or Won’t Teach You: Grown Women’s
Stories of Their Teen Years
By Esther Kane, MSW
0-9780706-0-7
Teens/Self-Help
Non-Fiction
Softcover / 5.5” X 8.5”/ 200 Pages
e-book version also available
$19.95 CDN (and GST where applicable)
$16.95US
₤9.95UK
www.guidebooktowomanhood.com
esther@estherkane.com
Other Books by the Author:
Dump That Chump: A Ten-Step Plan for Ending Bad Relationships and Attracting the Fabulous Partner You Deserve. Esther Kane, MSW, RCC, 2006.
www.dumpthatchump.com
esther@estherkane.com
Published Articles
"Just
a Hunch"
Glow Magazine, October/November 2006
"Confessions
of a Toxic Relationship Junkie"
Glow Magazine, October/November 2006
"Seven
Tips for Deriving Energy from Your Relationships"
Alive Magazine, September 2006
"Local Counsellor Makes a Difference in
Women's Lives"
In-Focus Magazine, July 2006
Esther Wins Vancouver Island Top 40 Under 40 Award
Victoria
Times Colonist, June, 2006
Comox Valley Record, July 12, 2006
"Starving
for Attention"
Jewish Independent, July 22, 2005
"A Daughter's Words of
Wisdom"
Toronto Star, June 11, 2005
"Exploring the Role
that Ethnicity and Culture Play in Disordered Eating"
Visions: BC’s Mental Health Journal,
Fall, 2002
"Thesis
Explores Judaism and Female Eating Disorders"
The Canadian Jewish News, June 11, 1998
