Finding My Balance by Mariel Hemingway Summary
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In "Finding My Balance," Oscar-nominated actress Mariel Hemingway confronts her family's tragic legacy - including her grandfather Ernest's suicide - through yoga's healing power. How did this Hollywood star find peace amid chaos when therapy and medication failed?
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When the Legacy You Inherit Is Darkness Itself
Four suicides. Three generations. One granddaughter determined not to become the fifth statistic. This is the arithmetic of the Hemingway family-where literary genius and mental illness flow through the bloodline like twin rivers that sometimes merge into tragedy. At eleven years old, Mariel Hemingway became her bedridden mother's nighttime nurse, cleaning up after the cat while absorbing curses meant for an absent father. She watched her sister Muffet run naked through town believing she could fly, and her supermodel sister Margaux abandon school to party her way toward an early grave. The question wasn't if the "Hemingway curse" would claim her-it was when. But what makes this story remarkable isn't the darkness Mariel inherited; it's how she learned to transform it into light through the most unexpected medicine: the simple act of breathing and bending on a yoga mat.
The Girl Who Tried to Control Everything
The Body as Battleground
Love as the First Medicine
When Death Teaches You to Live
The Mat Where Everything Changed
The Balance That Was Always There
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