Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
No matter how sophisticated or wealthy or broke or enlightened you are, how you eat tells all.\ After three decades of studying, teaching and writing about our compulsions with food, bestselling author Geneen Roth adds a powerful new dimension to her work in Women Food and God. She begins with her most basic concept: The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings about love, fear, anger, meaning,...
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Since adolescence, Geneen Roth has gained and lost more than a thousand pounds. She has been dangerously overweight and dangerously underweight, plagued by shame and self hatred. Then, on the verge of suicide, she ended the war. She began trusting her body and questioning her beliefs. It worked, and Geneen wrote about it in the bestseller When Food Is Love. Now, after three decades, she adds a profound new dimension in this knock-your-socks-off ride to a fulfilling relationship with food, your body ... and almost everything else. Library Journal While "God" is in the title of this latest work by best-selling author Roth (When Food Is Love), she touches only lightly on religion, focusing instead on why some people use food to mask their emotions. Overeating numbs feelings and erases unpleasant life experiences, Roth says; eating ends up being about bloating and indigestion, not about enjoying food. Through a series of inquiries, Roth helps overeaters find the underlying reasons for using food as an emotional buffer. Roth also provides seven basic guidelines for eating (which do not include counting calories) and other therapeutic self-help tools. Whether the trap is eating brownies or shopping in excess, Roth's advice could be applied to any addiction. VERDICT This is an excellent book for anyone tired of quick-fix diets. Having experienced the ups and downs of emotional eating herself, Roth offers readers genuine and heartfelt advice. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 11/1/09.]—Phyllis Goodman, West Chester P.L., OH
Prologue: The World on Our Plates 9Part 1 PrinciplesChapter 1 About God 33Chapter 2 Ending the War 40Chapter 3 Never Underestimate the Inclination to Bolt 50Chapter 4 It's Not About the Weight but It's Not Not About the Weight 67Chapter 5 Beyond What's Broken 85Chapter 6 Reteaching Loveliness 100Part 2 PracticesChapter 7 Tigers in the Mind 113Chapter 8 Married to Amazement 135Chapter 9 Breath by Breath 149Chapter 10 The GPS from the Twilight Zone 157Part 3 EatingChapter 11 Those Who Have Fun and Those Who Don't 177Chapter 12 If Love Could Speak 195Chapter 13 Being Hot Fudge Sundaes 207Chapter 14 The "Oh Shit" Mantra 220Epilogue: Last Words 234Acknowledgments 243Addendum 247Beginning Inquiry 249The Eating Guidelines 255
\ From the Publisher"Geneen Roth has written an extraordinary book - at once beautiful, moving, funny and searing. Most important, she gives us a practical way to use our bodies - along with some of the most difficult parts of our emotional lives - as gracious and transformative portals to our soul."\ —Rick Foster, co-author of Happiness & Wealth and How We Choose to Be Happy\ "Women Food and God is daring, dazzling, funny, comforting, wise and profoundly spiritual. It maps the journey from the darkness of obsession to the pure sense of being in prose so insightful and astonishing it left me breathless. Geneen Roth is an international treasure, and her new book is a gift to us all."\ — Gay Hendricks, Ph.D. author of Five Wishes and Conscious Loving\ "Geneen Roth does it again! Women Food and God is absolutely mesmerizing. And loaded with insights which can change your life."\ —Chistiane Northrup, MD, ob/gyn physician and author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause\ “This is a hugely important work, a life-changer, one that will free untold women from the tyranny of fear and hopelessness around their bodied. Beautifully written, a joy to read, rich in both revelation and great humor.”\ —Anne Lamott, author of Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith\ \ \ \ \ \ Library JournalWhile "God" is in the title of this latest work by best-selling author Roth (When Food Is Love), she touches only lightly on religion, focusing instead on why some people use food to mask their emotions. Overeating numbs feelings and erases unpleasant life experiences, Roth says; eating ends up being about bloating and indigestion, not about enjoying food. Through a series of inquiries, Roth helps overeaters find the underlying reasons for using food as an emotional buffer. Roth also provides seven basic guidelines for eating (which do not include counting calories) and other therapeutic self-help tools. Whether the trap is eating brownies or shopping in excess, Roth's advice could be applied to any addiction. VERDICT This is an excellent book for anyone tired of quick-fix diets. Having experienced the ups and downs of emotional eating herself, Roth offers readers genuine and heartfelt advice. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 11/1/09.]—Phyllis Goodman, West Chester P.L., OH\ \
