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Larkin, February 19, 2011 (view all comments by Larkin)
This is the best spiritual book I've read in maybe forever (which is saying a lot since I write them myself!). I picked it up last week because I wanted to know what all the fuss was about and Roth is way more than advertised. She describes the process of waking up in sly today terms, without having at it directly. And then does a terrific job of describing what it feels like to be awake without actually saying that is what she is talking about. It doesn't hurt that she is hilarious, irreverent and blunt. I bow in gratitude to her effort and for the lives she is saving through her work.
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Andrea Cumbo, October 21, 2010 (view all comments by Andrea Cumbo)
Roth’s fundamental idea is that women overeat or constantly diet because we believe that somehow our ability to control our weight will give us control over our lives. This idea is one I can wholly agree with. I know that when my stress level goes up I will eat most things in site, especially if I don’t have time each day to wind down and think through my feelings. Perhaps the strongest thing I’ve taken from the book is that I need to face what I feel and not run away from it with food, TV, alcohol, or whatever other escape I want. I need to stare it in the face and move through the feeling instead of avoiding it. The book itself gets a little repetitive towards the end, but overall, I really appreciated what it taught me.
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Women, Food, and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
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Geneen Roth
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by Rick Foster, co-author of Happiness & Wealth and How We Choose to Be Happy,
"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."
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by Gay Hendricks, Ph.D. author of Five Wishes and Conscious Loving,
"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."
"Synopsis"
by Ingram,
Roth began exploring emotional eating in her bestseller When Food Is Love. Now, two decades later, here is her masterwork, Women, Food, and God.
"Synopsis"
by Ingram,
The bestselling author of When Food Is Love helps over-eaters find the underlying reasons for using food as an emotional buffer. Roth also provides seven basic guidelines for eating and other therapeutic self-help tools.
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by Netread,
Geneen Roth’s 1991 bestseller, When Food Is Love , spoke to a wide audience—including Oprah Winfrey, who embraced Roth’s empowering message. Since then, Roth has taken the sum total of her experience and combined it with spirituality, psychology, and self-awareness to explain women’s true hunger in Women, Food, and God . .
Roth’s approach to eating is the same as any addiction—it is an activity to avoid feeling emotions. From the first page, readers will be struck by Roth’s intelligence, humor, and sensitivity, as she traces the path of overeating from its subtle beginning through its logical end. Whether the drug is booze or brownies, the problem is the same: opting out of life. Roth’s premier advice is eat anything you want . She powerfully argues for personal investigation and urges readers to pay attention to what they truly need—and it usually cannot be found in a supermarket. She provides seven basic guidelines for eating (the most important is to never diet) and shares reassuring, practical advice that has over the years helped thousands of women who have attended her highly successful seminars and workshops..
Truly a thinking woman’s guide to eating—and an anti-diet book— women everywhere will find insights and revelations on every page. .
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