Good Enough

Believing Beautiful Through Trauma, Through Life, Through Disorder

By: Carly Newberg

Narrated by: Carly Newberg

Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

Because it doesn’t matter how many times someone looks you in the eyes and tells you you’re beautiful, you have to believe it - and if you don’t - you have to keep fighting.

In Good Enough: Believing Beautiful Through Trauma, Through Life, Through Disorder, author Carly Newberg reveals what it’s like to live with her “monsters” - the insidious voices inside her head that insist she isn’t worthy - and her journey toward overcoming them. Drawing on her faith and authors such as Dr. Anita Johnston, Don Richard Riso, and Mark Nepo, Carly encourages listeners to shed their masks and enter the world as they are while embracing both their flaws and strengths. In this collection of stories and journal entries, Carly explores the reality of living with an eating disorder, the problem with comparison, and the ways in which one’s environment affects one’s growth - for the better or worse.

Listeners from all walks of life are sure to see themselves in Carly’s story and discover new ways to thrive in spite of life’s challenges. Most importantly, this memoir will empower listeners to see past the false stories they tell themselves so that they, too, can believe they are good enough.

©2020 Carly Newberg (P)2021 Carly Newberg

A deeply vulnerable, endearing book.

This book was hard to put down. Raw, deep, personal - the author truly seems to bare her soul to us in this emotional book. Although the main focus is about recovery from an eating disorder, which I myself have never struggled with, I still found Carly’s journey to be wholly relatable. Poor body image, impostor syndrome, never feeling good enough, struggling to let people in to see the “real” us, self-sabotage, clinging to unhealthy habits because the devil we know always seems better than the one we don’t - it wouldn’t be a stretch for me to guess that every human on the planet has gone through one or more of these things at some point in their lives. This introspective, emotionally intelligent young woman takes us along on her healing journey in a way that is never boring or self-pitying, without glorifying the reality of life with an eating disorder.

I was pleasantly surprised at the inclusion of Carly’s journey towards faith and trust in God. The theme of her faith isn’t so prevalent in the book that you would be unable to enjoy it if you didn’t share the same beliefs, but as a person of faith myself, I appreciated the reality she portrayed about her walk with God. Too many believers make themselves look like they’ve got it all figured out, which makes the majority of us who struggle with normal ups and downs look abnormal. Carly’s navigation and narration of this part of her story was refreshing.

Speaking of narration - I particularly enjoyed that the author herself was the narrator of this book on Audible. I don’t believe another narrator could have put the same inflection and feeling behind the words, having not written the words themselves. Only Carly would know the tone and cadence needed to immerse her audience in the emotions she was feeling when the events occurred. Another person speaking these words would have made them too generic.

I truly loved this book and I already have quite a few people in mind to recommend it to. Thank you, Carly Newberg, for sharing yourself with us. May your story reach many people who need to hear it.

Definitely read!

Carly has an inspirational voice and beautiful story. Her perspective on eating disorders and life in general is so worth listening to.