Geneen Roth

Unhealthy relationships to money turn out to resemble unhealthy relationships to food; both reflect how we see the world and how we really feel about ourselves.

Author Geneen Roth and her husband Matt lost their life savings which were invested with Bernie Madoff. She wrote this book in the aftermath, and in it she leaves no stone unturned in exploring her dysfunctional and destructive ideas about money, food, love, family, how you can ever have enough or feel you do.

I've spent years show more working on my own relationship to money, but I still saw echoes of undiscovered country while reading this book. I also saw my mother's toxic relationships with both food and money reflected here -- I'd never realized before they could be connected, and why.

Very thought provoking and unflinchingly honest. Highly recommended. show less

Geneen Roth has a lot of guts. I say this because it takes a lot of guts to share the things that she does in this book-- her feelings towards food, towards herself, towards her relationships. Seriously, some of the incidents she describes had me cringing with secondhand embarrassment and agony. But that is also why I like this book. Roth is brave to be so open and honest about her issues and this book will definitely resonate for those with an unhealthy relationship with food and eating. I show more do think it is a little thin though, and wish it went into more detail. A lot of the information here won't be anything new if you've already read some material (books or online) on binge-eating/compulsive eating, but it's insightful to read about a woman's real, personal journey through it. show less

I loved this book. It's going to be a reread , over and over, I can tell. I first read it like any other book in this vein, hoping it would tell me to do this or that and it would all be better. This is not that type of book and I'm ultimately glad. It makes you think. It's helping me to see the emotional connection to food and how it can be detrimental. I thank "God" for her insight.

This is a fabulous little book. It's a series of more than fifty very short advisory essays all about how to love yourself when you hate yourself. Specifically, Roth's work deals with compulsive eating, and this is her focus here too, but unlike some of her other work, this book is clearly meant to be more broadly applicable to any and all situations in which one might find oneself swimming in a sea of self-hatred. Roth is a humorous writer. She has a similar sort of wit as Anne Lamott, who show more has written the introduction to this book. Overall I found this book hilarious and moving. I stayed up all night to read it. show less