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Pork Belly Tacos with a Side of Anxiety

My Journey Through Depression, Bulimia, and Addiction

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Pork Belly Tacos with a Side of Anxiety

Written by: Yvonne Castañeda
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
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In Pork Belly Tacos with a Side of Anxiety, Yvonne Castañeda shares vibrant stories of her childhood growing up in Miami as the daughter of humble immigrants from Mexico and Cuba … and how she came to develop an unhealthy relationship with food.

To help ease her mami’s nervios, Yvonne becomes a perfectionist from a young age, achieving high grades at school and mastering the piano. But as her Cuban family members openly make comments about her awkward desarrollo, or puberty, Yvonne enters a new phase of self-consciousness that begins her obsession with weight.

She abandons the piano for the high school cheerleading team and reinvents herself, becoming both skinny and popular. However, as a first-generation adolescent born in the United States, Yvonne wrestles with the conflict between the cultural norms of her Hispanic/Latino heritage and American societal expectations.

Plagued by doubt and low self-esteem, Yvonne begins a vicious cycle of weight gain and loss as she battles bulimia nervosa. Beleaguered by feelings of guilt, shame, and inferiority, she develops anxiety, depression, and a reliance on dangerous coping mechanisms.

Ultimately, sage advice from her dear abuela in Guadalajara, Mexico, guides Yvonne to a realization that shifts her perspective of herself and the purpose of her life, providing a foundation for inner peace and la solución to her past struggles.

©2022 Yvonne Castañeda. First published in the United States in 2022 by Santa Monica Press (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing
History & Culture Teen & Young Adult United States Young Adult Mental Health Piano Addiction Memoirs Teen Trauma
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Exactly what the world needs to hear

Yvonne has shared her story in such a transparent way, the dirty, disgusting truths of an eating disorder. She managed to discuss the empty hopelessness of what an addiction, and the depression that goes with it, does to a person. However, she shows how you CAN recover!!!
I recommend this book to anyone recovering from an eating disorder or substance abuse. Incredible.

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