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The Go-Girl Guide : Surviving Your 20s With Savvy, Soul, and Style
by Julia Bourland

Editorial Reviews

The publisher, Contemporary Books , May 30, 2000 Welcome to your 20s! Are you having fun yet? "Your moods are in perpetual flux. Your body is acting in strange, unpredictable ways. Career aspirations oscillate wildly. Financial security is a joke. Relationships with family and friends are undergoing major reconstruction, and to add to the overall connection-confusion are fierce desires to find a mate (or, at least, an ever-ready sex machine to accommodate your hungry libido). But dating is more complicated than ever. And this is supposed to be the time of your life? Well, girl, welcome to your 20s!

"But don't despair. Twenty-something turbulence is all part of the flight toward becoming an emotionally rich, sexually fulfilled, professionally successful, financially secure woman. A few strategic maneuvers will guarantee smooth flying. That's where I can help." - Julia Bourland

With nine years of 20-something experience and dozens of interviews with career counselors, dating coaches, family psychologists, sex therapists, financial advisors, and nearly 100 other 20-something women (the real experts), Julia Bourland offers real-life perspective, savvy advice, and a good laugh or two on everything you need to know about this hair-raising decade of transition, including:

Figuring Out Your Purpose in Life: Keep in mind, though, that career enlightenment probably won't happen until the final days of the decade.

The Mating Frenzy: How to meet prospective mates and screen them for compatibility and/or overt flaws.

Adventures in Couplehood: Lessons on everything from managing your life when you add a new mate to the mix to keeping the romance afloat once you've settled into twosome routines.

That Whacked-Out Body Feeling: The subtle physiological changes wreaking havoc on body and soul during the final metamorphosis from girl to woman.

The Body-Image Demons: Why they taunt the 20-something female crowd and how to get rid of them once and for all.

Financial Chaos: Getting money under control during a decade fraught with student loan repayments and credit card debt, all on a paltry entry-level salary.

. . . and much, much more.

Julia Bourland is a freelance writer in the San Francisco area. She has written dozens of articles on women's health, fitness, and lifestyle for such national magazines as Shape, Woman's Day, Condé Nast Women's Sports & Fitness, Parenting, and Rebecca's Garden. Prior to freelancing, she worked as an associate editor at Parenting.