When Food Is Love

Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy

De: Geneen Roth

Narrado por: Geneen Roth

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

“A life-changing book.”—Oprah

In 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.

©1992 Geneen Roth; (P)2008 Highbridge Audio

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"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

Insightful to any repetitive, impulsive behavior

I’m not a compulsive eater, but read this because a friend was reading it. It’s a short read and very insightful to any other repetitive, impulsive behavior. I’d definitely read it again.

Great read...

When food is love the love is outside of us and we have no role or input or expectation of how it works, impacts us or how to respond. we are and can be in control in a healing caring way with both food and with love.

A Book That Makes You Reflect

I listened to this audiobook and enjoyed it. it made me pause and reflect on my earlier life as a kid to uncover what may cause me to be compulsive with food at times. i am not a compulsive eater as the author and reader may have been but there definitely were some things discussed I felt were important words to hear- the need for self love to be able to love more intimately. the author brought her personal life experiences and challenges to the story and shared how she became "alive" again and able to be more productive, social and intimate because of it. Good book, I'd recommend for anyone who struggles with food/dieting. The author reading, was a little monotone... might have been a better audio book if the voice-over was a bit more engaging.

You have helped me more than I can express

I am 42. Finally ... finally I have shifted from rough seas to land. I am not alone and so grateful. Thank you. X

Great book focusing on emotions

More on emotions than food and diets, just what I needed to hear. Emotional eating (for me) is never about the food. This short and sweet book helped me get centered, almost like a meditation. I’ll listen to it again, many times I’m sure.