Jessica Berger Gross: The Courage to Choose Happiness

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Jessica Berger Gross is the author of the beautiful, moving, hopeful memoir, Estranged: Leaving Family & Finding Home. Jessica was raised in a seemingly typical middle class family in Long Island. But behind the scenes she suffered physical abuse from her father. She made the decision in her late twenties to stop communicating with her parents not knowing that the decision would become permanent. Now, 17 years later she's written a memoir that Elle Magazine included in their guide to the "best books of summer," and that Glamour called "gripping." Jessica was first introduced to yoga in high school and immersed herself in the practice after the estrangement. She practiced many different styles -- Jivamukti, Baptiste, vinyasa -- before settling on Iyengar as her chosen path. We talk about how yoga helped her reclaim her body, how it informs her choices now that she's a mom, and how it kept her sane and inspired during the writing of this book. Shownotes: yogalandpodcast.com/episode66/

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0:30.0	Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 66 of Yoga Land.
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1:08.0	Today's interview is with Jessica Berger Gross.
1:11.0	Jessica is the author of the literary memoir Astranged.
1:15.0	It is a beautiful, moving, hopeful memoir about being estranged from her parents.
1:23.0	Jessica was raised in a seemingly very typical middle-class Jewish suburban family in Long Island,
1:32.0	but behind the scenes she was suffering physical abuse from her father.
1:37.4	She made the decision in her late 20s to stop communicating with her parents not really knowing that that decision
1:45.0	would become permanent and now 17 years later she's written this memoir.
1:50.0	As I said it's beautiful and she is now happily married and has a son of her own and I feel a real kinship with Jessica.
2:00.0	I worked with her at Yoga Journal years ago when she was a new mom and she wrote a blog for me there called
2:06.6	enlightened motherhood and I got to know her there. But when you write a memoir as she has you just feel like you know her even more intimately which I think is a great
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