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Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
March 2010
On Sale: March 2, 2010
211 pages
ISBN: 1416543074
EAN: 9781416543077
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir | Non-Fiction Philosphy
No matter how sophisticated or wealthy or broke
or enlightened you are, how you eat tells all. If
you suffer about your relationship with food ? you eat too
much or too little, think about what you will eat constantly
or try not to think about it at all ? you can be free. Just
look down at your plate. The answers are there. Don't run.
Look. Because when we welcome what we most want to avoid, we
contact the part of ourselves that is fresh and alive. We
touch the life we truly want and evoke divinity
itself. Since adolescence, Geneen Roth has gained and lost
more than a thousand pounds. She has been dangerously
overweight and dangerously underweight. She has been plagued
by feelings of shame and self-hatred and she has felt
euphoric after losing a quick few pounds on a fad diet. Then
one day, on the verge of suicide, she did something radical:
She dropped the struggle, ended the war, stopped trying to
fix, deprive and shame herself. She began trusting her body
and questioning her beliefs. It worked. And losing weight
was only the beginning. She wrote about her discoveries in
When Food Is Love, her first New York Times
bestseller. She gave huge numbers of women their first
insights into compulsive eating and she changed huge numbers
of lives for the better. Now, after more than three
decades of studying, teaching and writing about what drives
our compul-sions with food, Geneen adds a profound 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
aboutlove, fear, anger, meaning, transformation and, yes,
even God. But it doesn't stop there. Geneen shows how going
beyond both the food and feelings takes you deeper into
realms of spirit and soul to the bright center of your own
life. With penetrating insight and irreverent humor, Roth
traces food compulsions from subtle beginnings to unexpected
ends. She teaches personal examination, showing readers how
to use their relationship with food to discover the
fulfillment they long for. Your relationship with food, no
matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom, says Roth.
What you most want to get rid of is itself the doorway to
what you want most: the demystification of weight loss and
the luminous presence that so many of us call
"God." Packed with revelations on every page, this book is
a knock-your-socks-off ride to a deeply fulfilling
relationship with food, your body...and almost everything
else. Women, Food and God is, quite simply, a guide
for life.
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