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New York Times-bestselling celebrity ghostwriter of self-help books gets hooked on self-help and new age hocus pocus herself. Here, she offers funny, heartfelt essays and lessons learned from her decade-long bender, and an ironic epiphany that leads to the realization that we are all good enough already.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Note to Reader
Prologue
Part 1: Reeling
Chapter 1
My Gateway Drug: The Vision Board
Chapter 2
The End of Everything
Chapter 3
You Can Eat Your Dinner or Drink Your Dinner, But You Can’t Do Both
Part 2: Dealing
Chapter 4
Fat Women Don’t Get Frenched
Chapter 5
Numerologists, Clairvoyants, and Healers, Oh My!
Chapter 6
The Melrose Place of It All
Chapter 7
The Life-Changing Magic of Tapping into an Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder You Didn’t Know You Had
Chapter 8
Never Judge a Clairvoyant by the Lampshade on Her Head
Chapter 9
No Diet Left Behind
Part 3: Healing
Chapter 10
When A-Types Spa
Chapter 11
Any Direct Flight
Chapter 12
The Beginning of Everything
Chapter 13
When Your Healer Jumps the Shark
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the author
Stephanie Krikorian is a
New York Times Best Selling ghostwriter, an Emmy-nominated reality television creator and executive producer. As a journalist, her work has appeared in the
New York Post;
O, The Oprah Magazine, and
The Wall Street Journal. She also was a producer at CNBC and BusinessWeek TV, WSJ.com, and Reuters. Stephanie studied Improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade, and when she's not at the keyboard she can be found on her paddle board or practicing yoga. She splits her time between New York City and East Hampton.
Summary
Searching for That Self-Help High
“Inspiring and hilarious,
Zen Bender perfectly captures our misguided quest for perfection….” —
Patricia Velasquez, actress in
Arrested Development and
The Mummy, author of
Straight Walk, supermodel, and UNESCO Artist for Peace.
Yahoo Finance Best Business Books of 2019 and #1 New Release in Yoga, Zen Philosophy, and HumorCraving a quick fix. When the recession turned her life upside down, Stephanie Krikorian had to reinvent her life...and fast. She started ghostwriting self-help books for women. Between writing and researching she realized that everywhere she looked there was AFOG (another freaking opportunity for growth). Soon she wasn't just writing each book; she was living them. This was the start of a ten-year zen bender of dieting, dating, journaling, meditating, and Marie-Kondo-ing on a quest for that ultimate self-help high.
Fifty and fabulous. Stephanie Krikorian spent her forties trying all of the dating hacks to find love and respect, all of the diets to build self-esteem in a new body, and all of the spiritual guidance to become centered through self-care. On the brink of turning fifty she realized that being better wasn't what she craved; it was something else altogether.
A Self-confidence book for women. For anyone tired of promises to change everything in just thirty days, this book is a breath of fresh air.
Zen Bender is the story of one woman's journey to radical acceptance, with some questionable advice along the way. A witty, moving, insightful story, the woman behind bestselling celebrity self-help books shares her story of being hooked on the self-help fix for a decade before learning that all the self-help in the world won't help you trust your gut.
Readers who enjoyed self-confidence books for women like The Universe Has Your Back, The Self-Love Experiment, or The Gifts of Imperfection; will love Zen Bender: A Decade-Long Enthusiastic Quest to Fix Everything (That Was Never Broken).
Foreword
- Many of Stephanie Krikorian’s network of celebrity authors have agreed to use their reach for a Zen Bender’s influencer campaign that extends beyond many millions of followers.
- Krikorian has worked in multiple New York and international newsrooms, which will yield her the reach of that network, many of whom have already agreed to publish essays, do press coverage, and use their extensive personal networks.
- Multiple New York corporations have agreed to bulk book buys with speaking attached around the launch of the book, most of which are aware of the need to buy retail during the first week of publication.
- In addition to publishing her own blog and podcast, Krikorian has assembled nearly 200 grassroots podcasts on which to be interviewed.
- Krikorian has a plan to pursue national brands for social blasts and guest posts.
- Zen Bender will not only have a launch in New York City, but a splashy one in East Hampton in season, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and in her hometown in Canada as well.
- Krikorian will also do online and in-person book club appearances across the country.
