Always Too Much and Never Enough

Touching and inspirational

Jasmin gives such a painfully honest account of growing up overweight, bullied, and struggling with food addiction. I don't usually read memoirs but this one hit home for me. Highly recommend for anyone struggling with weight/image/food issues. This will definitely change you as it has me!

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Amazing

Thank you Jasmin for taking us on your so relatable journey. I too am struggling with being a somewhat junk food vegan and this helped me and my mother both so much <3

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A great book to listen to!

It was a pleasure to listen to Jasmin's voice throughout this book! Listening to her story has inspired me to continue on my journey of transitioning to veganism. You rock, Jas. :)

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Great Read and a Passionate Narration

What made the experience of listening to Always Too Much and Never Enough the most enjoyable?

I think having the author readed it added an extra level of passion and emotion to the story.

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Really Enjoyed this book

What made the experience of listening to Always Too Much and Never Enough the most enjoyable?

I really enjoyed listening to Jasmin Singer read her own story. It gave it a nice personal touch.

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genuine

Jasmin pours her heart out with genuine sincerity.
Very touching story. I def enjoyed that Jasmin did her own audio.

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amazing story in so many ways! thank you Jasmin

loved it. thank you very much for your strength in sharing your story. very inspiring

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Not what I expected, could use trigger warnings

I did not know much about Jasmin before reading this. I had heard her on a vegan podcast, not her own and thought his book was about overcoming disordered eating with veganism. It’s is not really that. She was still very disordered while vegan and did not overcome disordered eating until adopting juice fasting which some might argue is also problematic. However, she did get results.
Besides the expected triggers of binge eating and anorexia/starvation. Readers need to be aware that other potentially triggering topics include date rape, graphic language in the harm done to animals on factory farms, self harm, and bullying.
I think I would have liked the narrative better if it stayed chronological. She discusses first food/being fat, then transition to vegetarian and vegan, the transition to lesbianism, then tattoos. When you are in the vegan part, you revisit previous years that you have already heard about and have to pull that all up again. Same with Sexual journey, rewind and play it all again for a new perspective, same with tattoos, although this section is much shorter. One chronological narrative would have been less confusing and a little shorter and I think equally as powerful. The section on juice fasting is very long and can be a bit much if that is not what you were planning to do.
The performance is excellent and I admire Jasmin for her passion, ability to overcome and willingness to share.

Depth of personal insight

Initially I wanted to just stop listening in an effort to avoid hearing truths that are better left unsaid. The reality is that Jaz is not me and I/we are not going to find the truths however, the insight and courage is what kept me going to the end.

Great story and voice!

Very relatable story. The writing style was intriguing and I enjoyed Jasmin's voice. I'd reccomend!