I write books
Fat Is a Spiritual Issue
(Mowbray, 1993)
I started writing Fat is a Spiritual Issue as soon as I had finished my degree in philsophy and English at York University. I had suffered from an eating disorder as a teenager and wanted to write the book I would have needed at the time. I felt the traditional Christian faith, in which I had been brought up, had actually contributed to my difficulties around food. It had, for example, encouraged a mistrust in my appetite, whereas my path to recovery demanded I listened to when my body was telling me I needed to eat. Fat is a Spiritual Issue was published by Mowbray in 1993, several years after I had finished it.
“It hit me in the centre of my chest, cracked me open and made me honestly and lovingly face things deep within my heart. As I finished the book I was sobbing with great big tears of relief and joy.“ (Letter from a reader)
“She begins and ends with a cheese sandwich and inbetween has more that feels gut right to say about God and being alive than any other single book I’ve read.” (Wendy Jennings, The Church Times.)
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Memories of Bliss
(SCM, 2003)
Once Fat is a Spiritual Issue had been published to critical acclaim, publishers got in touch with me and asked if there was anything else I was working on. As I happens I was interested in sexuality, not least because I found it utterly unfathomable and yet totally unavoidable. With their encouragement, I embarked on writing a book on sexuality and spirituality which asked: “What is sexuality? ” “What’s going on when we get turned on?” “How can we live our sexualities lovingly?” Memories of Bliss was published by SCM in 2003.
“Jo Ind’s Memories of Bliss is currently being passed around my friends and going down absolutely juicingly, to coin a phrase. It’s the only book on sexuality that I’ve wanted to say a great big orgasmic ‘YES’ to.” (Ruthie, www.24-7talkback.com)
A truly outstanding book (www.st-james-picadilly.org)
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