When Food Is Love, Geneen Roth
When Food Is Love, Geneen Roth
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When Food Is Love
Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy

Author: Geneen Roth

Narrator: Geneen Roth

Abridged: 1 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 09/17/2008

Synopsis

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Women Food and God

“A life-changing book.”—OprahIn this moving and intimate book, Geneen Roth, bestselling author of Feeding the Hungry Heart and Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating, shows how dieting and emotional eating often become a substitute for intimacy. Drawing on her own painful personal experiences, as well as the candid stories of those she has helped in her seminars, Roth examines the crucial issues that surround emotional eating: need for control, dependency on melodrama, desire for what is forbidden, and the belief that one wrong move can mean catastrophe. She shows why many people overeat in an attempt to satisfy their emotional hunger, and why weight loss frequently just uncovers a new set of problems. But her welcome message is that change is possible. This book will help readers break destructive, self-perpetuating patterns and learn to satisfy all the hungers—physical and emotional—that make us human.

About The Author

Geneen Roth is a writer and a teacher who has gained international prominence through her work in the field of eating disorders. She is the founder of the Breaking Free workshops, which she has conducted nationwide since 1979. She is also the author of Feeding the Hungry Heart, Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating, and When Food is Love. A frequent guest on television and radio programs, she has written for and been featured in Tie, Ms., New Woman, Family Circle, and Cosmopolitan. Her poetry and short stories have been published in numerous anthologies. Born in New York City, she now lives in northern California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cara on December 09, 2008

well holy crap. if you've got any kind of messed up relationship w/food, this book will blow your mind. I read it, then read three more by her, then flew to Santa Cruz to do a 5-day workshop with her that was just amazing. It's basically exploring Buddhism via your relationship with eating. She's fu......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on June 04, 2013

I really appreciated this book. While I don't have a problem with food, I felt that a lot of what Roth discusses was still applicable to me. The focus of the book is not food specifically, rather all the (unhealthy) things we do to cope with unresolved childhood pain. She discusses compulsive behavi......more

Goodreads review by Morgan on May 08, 2024

Geneen Roth GETS REAL AF on the complex relationship many people have with FOOD (and dieting, and exercise, and compulsive behaviors of all kinds) and INTIMACY. GURL! Roth additionally posits that WE (YOU&ME) FREQUENTLY use COMPULSIVE behaviors as a substitute for emotional FULFILLMENT or as a way to......more

Goodreads review by Carolina on November 17, 2016

El libro que más me ha trascendido este año, realmente ha tocado una parte muy muy profunda (considerando un trastorno BED), altamente recomendado a todos aquellos que están luchando cada día con algo similar.........more

Goodreads review by Julia on August 23, 2011

Is okay...the information is good but the delivery is redundent...spending a dollar to save a dime. Meaning little meat and a lot of fluff...so yes the information is good but I is a pain in the boring butt to get it.......more

Quotes

"A life-changing book."
—Oprah“A rare and special book that touches our inner selves with extraordinary courage, authenticity, and beauty. I have seen very few books with this kind of clarity and human depth. It will move you to tears and to joy. It will entertain and delight you, and it will make you a deeper and more compassionate human being.”
—John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America“SPECTACULAR! I laughed and I cried. . . a tender and daring book that you’ll never forget.”
—Laura Davis, co-author of The Courage to Heal“I SEE MIRACLES IN MY LIFE EVERY DAY, AND ROTH IS ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO HELPED MAKE THAT HAPPEN.”
—Anne Lamott in Mademoiselle“When Food is Love is Roth’s seminal work. This is a big, beautiful, and important book. I cannot say enough about it. I hope everyone reads it.”
—Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones“She tells of her own experiences with a non-blink frankness cushioned by the gracefulness of her prose.”
—Chicago Tribune“This book is A) good enough to eat, B) nourishing to the heart.”
—Jack Kornfield, Buddhist teacher, co-author of Seeking the Heart of Wisdom

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