Geneen Roth

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 picked up this book based on the positive reviews it was receiving in the press & I was not disappointed. Geneen has fantastic insight into the emotional eating issue. I took alot away from this book and it has opened my eyes (and my mind) to all the negative battering that I do to myself on a daily basis. I recommend to anyone who thinks (or knows) that they use food as their drug of choice to escape their feelings. I will definitely be re-reading several chapters more than once.

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

For only a 211-page book there are a lot of quotations from other spiritual advisors in here. In between rehashing her childhood troubles with her mother and emphasizing the typical reluctance of her students to immediately embrace her wellness ideology, Roth does give some interesting, encouraging, and practical information regarding the correlations between our relationship with food and the decisions we make in other aspects of life.