The Obedient Girl's Disease: Sara Hirsh Bordo Insights On How Good Girl Conditioning Breaks Women's Bodies — and How to Heal

The day I read that more than six in ten women with autoimmune disease were raised as the oldest or only daughter in their families, I put my phone down and cried.Not because it was sad. Because it was my story.I am an eldest daughter. I have been sick for years. And nobody — not one doctor, not one specialist, not one person in my life — had ever connected those two facts.Sara Hirsh Bordo did.Her research stopped me cold. Then it sent me on the most important journey of my adult life — back through my own story, my own conditioning, my own body — to finally understand why a woman who gives everything to everyone eventually has nothing left to give, including her health.This book is what I wrote on that journey. Distilled. Practical. Personal. Written for every woman who has ever been told her symptoms are stress, her exhaustion is weakness, and her needs are too much.If you are an eldest daughter carrying a diagnosis nobody can fully explain — this book was written for you.If you are a woman who has spent her whole life being good, and whose body is quietly keeping the score — this book was written for you.If Sara Hirsh Bordo's work has already found you and you need somewhere to go deeper — this is that place.Come in. Sit down. You have been standing for long enough. Read more