03/21/2010, 2:39 PM PST
How has Hungry: impacted YOU? Leave your comments below
Name: Anonymous
Comment:
Wonderfully written and so on target! One thing that hit home for me is that your background was fairly normal. Most ED books are full of stories of abuse/betrayal that I never experienced. I told myself that life wasn’t so bad -just suck it up. Thank you for the validation I’ve needed.
03/21/2010, 9:38 PM PST
Name: Jesse Jay
Comment:
I absolutely loved how real the author is. You feel like you are there with her, going through all the horrendous experiences together. I noticed, that although I am a guy, and don’t struggle with eating disorders, I identified with Jessica in the lies the devil told her. I have had addictions myself and this book was amazing in helping me grow in intimacy as I fought the lies and grew close to God. Thank you so much for writing this book!!!
03/25/2010, 5:37 PM PST
Name: Beloved Daughter of the King
Comment:
I am really enjoying your book. It’s so up front, raw, transparent and real, strangely enough as if I were going through the journey with you. That is one of the new things the Lord has been doing lately as if it were happening to me also. As I am reading the Holy Spirit’s revealing lies I have believed or still believe. What a tremendous blessing to experience deliverance and freedom right then and there. Thank you so much for your precious labor of love unto our worthy King. I love and bless you Jessica, precious, beloved, accepted and affirmed daughter of the Most High God…
03/26/2010, 1:07 PM PST
Name: Anon
Comment:
Jessica writes in such a way that you feel as if she’s right next to you telling a story.
03/26/2010, 1:10 PM PST
Name: David
Comment:
There is so much wisdom packed into Hungry that it is surprising to find a 28-year-old wrote it. Jessica strings sentences together like a seasoned writer.
03/27/2010, 08:01 AM PST
Name: Eli – 34, Wife and mother of 2
Comment:
I just got your book and I can’t put it down! I can NOT believe the anointing…I am getting so ministered to. So inspired by your strength.
03/27/2010, 6:12 PM PST
Name: Warren Duffy
Comment:
I read Jessica’s great book, re read it, and read it again. That’s right – three times. You too will be riveted as you read this totally frank and marvelously uplifting story. You might not suffer from an eating disorder but you – and all your friends – will identify with this great testimony of God’s great power to help us all be overcomers.
Warren Duffy
Host – Duffy and Co, Live from LA, KKLA, Los Angeles
Member of the 2000 Class of the Radio and TV Broadcasters Hall of Fame
03/30/2010, 10:32 AM PST
Name: Jessica
Comment:
Although I’m not anorexic or bulimic, Jessica’s emotional struggle and fight against the enemy is very relatable and applicable to anyone who has struggled with temptation and self-identity issues. There was one chapter titled “Scale and Mirror.” Even though Jessica wrote about numerical weight, I couldn’t help but think about how I let my MCAT score dictate who I was. I was giving this lifeless thing power over me. I was giving my MCAT number power to make me depressed. As I did this, the enemy was overjoyed at how he could so easily deceive me. But, Jessica talked about defeating this lie by declaring that God is our identity! This book is real, raw, daring and risky- which is what makes it so powerful.
04/02/2010, 12:59 PM PST
Name: Laurie- 33, Nurse Practitioner
Comment:
I am LOVING your book! It is such a gift. Wish I had it years ago when i was in the middle of my disorder.
Laurie – 33, RN, Nurse Practitioner, and ED recoveree
December 6, 2011 8:35 pm
When I began reading your book, I must say that I was doing it out of responsibility because I told my friend that I would. I seems that everyone has the “cure” for me through some technique or book or remedy and although they all mean well, they don’t really understand; and I simply do not have the energy to try everything they can “offer” no matter how promising they make it sound. However, I just finished reading up to chapter 8 of your book, (which is a feat, because I can’t concentrate worth anything these days); I’ve read and re-read some of your journal entries, and they seem to come directly from my own head and heart. You understand. I didn’t think you would express so fully the thoughts of my own heart, but you did… I was amazed by how exact some of the thoughts were and I’m sure that when I can “feel” more of my emotions, I will also be surprised that you hit those on the head too.
Thank you for so bravely exposing yourself. Because of this, I can better understand my own heart and feel like I’m not so alone.
December 6, 2011 9:03 pm
Jessica, I want to thank you, and amazing God, for empowering you with so much courage and the ability to speak truth clearly and powerfully– it really does help to dispel the lies! I have spent much of today with you, really being nourished by your book… So much of your story resonnates with me on the deepest level of my being and helps me understand my own story (and the many areas of my life where there is still bondage) I am seeing that there are areas where God wants to take me much, much deeper with my healing, down to those roots.
You are a powerful teacher and writer… There is so much healing energy in your words.
December 6, 2011 9:07 pm
I know a book is a good one when I find I NEED a pen in hand, and I am madlyhighlighting, underlining whole paragraphs, putting 2-3 asterisks in the margins, making notes to myself… It’s like it’s all making so much more sense to me.