Most Popular Books by Geneen Roth

Millions of us are locked into an unwinnable weight game, as our self-worth is shredded with every diet failure. Combine the utter inefficacy of dieting with the lack of spiritual nourishment and we have generations of mad, ravenous self-loathing women. So says Geneen Roth, in her life-changing new book, Women, Food and God. Since her 1991 bestseller, When Food Is Love, was published, Roth has taken the sum total of her experience and combined it with spirituality and psychology to explain women''s true hunger. Roth''s approach to eating is that it is the same as any addiction - an activity to avoid feeling emotions. From the first page, readers will be struck by the author''s intelligence, humour and sensitivity, as she traces the path of overeating from its subtle beginnings through to its logical end. Whether the drug is booze or brownies, the problem is the same: opting out of life. She powerfully urges readers to pay attention to what they truly need - which 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 helped thousands of women who have attended her highly successful seminars. Truly a thinking woman''s guide to eating - and an anti-diet book - women everywhere will find insights and revelations on every page.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Geneen Roth, an exploration of the link between dieting, compulsive eating, and emotion, complete with life-changing advice on how to break the binge-diet cycle forever. There is an end to the anguish of emotional eating—and Geneen Roth has made it her life’s work to help people heal their relationship with food through an understanding of the deeply personal and spiritual issues at the root of compulsive eating. In this edition of Breaking Free From Emotional Eating, updated with a new introduction, Roth outlines her proven program for resolving the conflicts at the heart of overeating using simple techniques developed in her highly successful seminars to offer reassuring, practical advice on: • Learning to recognize the signals of physical hunger • Eating without distraction • Knowing when to stop • Kicking the scale-watching habit • Withstanding social and family pressures And more! By not only explaining the cause of emotional binge eating but also providing actionable techniques for readers to implement in their own lives, Breaking Free continues to help people end the binge-diet-cycle once and for all.

#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.

Gorgeous black-and-white illustrations are paired with quotes from Geneen Roth’s #1 New York Times bestseller, Women Food and God in this inspirational and relaxing coloring book. Oprah Winfrey called Geneen Roth’s #1 New York Times bestseller Women Food and God “a life-changing book.” Millions of readers and the many women who attend Geneen’s retreats and workshops often share their favorite quotes from the book. These quotations—that describe the important connection between the way we eat and the way we live—as well as some of the passages Geneen herself finds most meaningful, are collected on the pages of this enchanting coloring book. Color, contemplate, and discover who you really are in this perfect gift for women of all ages.

Geneen Roth, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Women Food and God, explains how to take the journey to find one’s own best self in this “beautiful, funny, deeply relevant” (Glennon Doyle) collection of personal reflections. With an introduction by Anne Lamott, This Messy Magnificent Life is a personal and exhilarating read on freeing ourselves from daily anxiety, lack, and discontent. It’s a deep dive into what lies behind our self-criticism, whether it is about the size of our thighs, the expression of our thoughts, or the shape of our ambitions. And it’s about stopping the search to fix ourselves by realizing that on the other side of the “Me Project” is spaciousness, peace, and the capacity to reclaim one’s power and joy. This Messy Magnificent Life explores the personal beliefs, hidden traumas, and social pressures that shape not just women’s feelings about their bodies but also their confidence, choices, and relationships. After years of teaching retreats and workshops on weight, money, and other obsessions, Roth realized that there was a connection that held her students captive in their unhappiness. With laugh-out-loud humor, compassion, and dead-on insight she reveals the paradoxes in our beliefs and shows how to move beyond our past to build lives that reflect our singularity and inherent power. This Messy Magnificent Life is a brilliant, bravura meditation on who we take ourselves to be, what enough means in our gotta-get-more culture, and being at home in our minds and bodies.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Women Food and God maps a path to meeting one of our greatest challenges-how we deal with money. When Geneen Roth and her husband lost their life savings in the Bernard Madoff debacle, Roth joined the millions of Americans dealing with financial turbulence, uncertainty, and abrupt reversals in their expectations. The resulting shock was the catalyst for her to explore how women''s habits and behaviors around money-as with food-can lead to exactly the situations they most want to avoid. Roth identified her own unconscious choices: binge shopping followed by periods of budgetary self-deprivation, "treating" herself in ways that ultimately failed to sustain, and using money as a substitute for love, among others. As she examined the deep sources of these habits, she faced the hard truth about where her "self-protective" financial decisions had led. With irreverent humor and hard-won wisdom, she offers provocative and radical strategies for transforming how we feel and behave about the resources that should, and can, sustain and support our lives.

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Women Food and God Roth speaks of issues that, chauvinism aside, only women can truly understand and identify with. In the past, her books were about food, weight, dieting, and the almost universal obsession that women have with their bodies and self-esteem. Now her canvas of introspection and discussion has expanded: eight chapters examine the nature of women''s friendships, the craving to be famous, the longing for safety, and the search for a parallel life (or the perfect fantasy), among other topics. Based on intensely personal experiences, written with intensely emotional and intellectually probing prose, Roth''s book pushes far beyond the issue of weight to ask what will make women happy. Her not-so-easy answers, divined from decades of therapy, of experiential beingness, of Buddhist practice, will speak to many. "Roth tells of her own experiences with a non-blink frankness cushioned by the gracefulness of her prose."—Chicago Tribune "Just the right mix of confession, sass, and style."—Publishers Weekly

A workbook that will help you stop compulsive eating from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Women Food and God. With the publication of her ground-breaking books, Feeding the Hungry Heart and Breaking Free From Compulsive Eating, Geneen Roth has helped hundred of thousands of people win their battle against the destructive binge-diet cycle. Now this remarkable companion workbook shows compulsive eaters—in a constructive, non-judgmental way—how to stop using food as a substitute for handling difficult emotions or situations...and how to enjoy eating and still lose weight naturally. By using the liberating exercises and techniques developed by Geneen Roth in her highly succesful Breaking Free® workshops, dieters, who''ve tried every conceivable diet—losing weight again and again, only to gain it back—and bingers, who are harming their health, can learn wholesome, beneficial ways to achieve their goals. This proven program offers reassuring guidlines on: • Letting food become a source of pleasure rather than anxiety • Kicking the scale-watching the habit—forever! • Recognizing the difference between physical and emotional hungers • Learning to say no • Listening to, and trusting, your body''s hunger and fullness signals • Distinguishing "forbidden foods" from those you truly want • Uncovering the conflicts that stand between your desire to lose weight and your urge to eat compulsively • Discovering other pleasures besides food

Geneen Roth’s legions of fans have always responded to her humor and honesty, her warmth and savvy. Those qualities, so present in The Craggy Hole in My Heart and The Cat Who Fixed It, take us deep into the story of a remarkable twenty-pound cat, Mister Blanche, and Geneen’s beloved father, Bernard, and the ways in which each taught her to love without reservation and to accept the fact that she might someday lose those whom she believed she could not live without. In these remarkable, inspiring, and joyous pages, we discover along with Geneen how to break free of the same fears that may drive us to eat or drink or shop too much. Fear of being vulnerable, fear of death, fear of losing what we want most: These are the demons that can inhibit our ability to embrace life freely and fully. Come meet Mister Blanche and the charming Bernard and immerse yourself in a poignant and funny story that is Geneen’s best. As her loyal readership already knows: It’s not about food, it’s not about the cat . . . it’s always been about love and how to live with it—and never live without it!

From the bestselling author of Women Food and God! Geneen Roth''s pioneering books were among the first to link emotional eating and perpetual dieting with deeply personal issues that go far beyond weight and body image. In When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull Up a Chair, Roth tackles the secret ways in which we undermine our best intentions. She shows us fifty simple, effective ways to feel gorgeous and powerful no matter what--in chapters such as: Learn to Recognize a Fat-and-Ugly Attack Retail Therapy Is as Important as the Other Kind Carry a Chunk of Chocolate Everywhere Remember that Thin People Have Cellulite, Get Old, and Die and much more When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull Up a Chair is the book for anyone who has ever had a second thought about their body appearance or weight.

¿A qué se debe el fracaso de la mayoría de las dietas? ¿Dónde reside el verdadero problema del exceso de peso y de la ingestión compulsiva de alimentos? La comida puede ser un sustituto del amor. Si dejamos de alimentar al niño maltratado que hay en el interior del adulto solitario podremos nutrir el amor y dar lugar a la intimidad. De esta manera liberaremos el dolor de la vida pasada y nos instalaremos definitivamente en el presente. Sólo si nos concedemos un espacio para la intimidad y el amor aprenderemos a disfrutar de la comida y dejaremos de usarla como un sustituto. Porque comer es una metáfora de la forma en que vivimos y de la forma en que amamos.

Geneen Roths Buch ist ein sehr praktischer, einfühlsamer, auch humorvoller Ratgeber für alle, die Essen in mehr oder weniger ausgeprätem Maße als "Ersatz" benutzen - als Ersatz für andere, vermeintlich nicht zu befriedigende Bedürfnisse und Wünsche. Es hilft, Essverhalten positiv zu beeinflussen, den Teufelskreis des Essens als Ersatz als Ersatz zu durchbrechen und ein entspanntes, an den wirklichen Bedürfnissen des Körpers orientiertes Verhältnis zur Nahrungsaufnahme zu entwickeln.

Un camino espiritual para perder peso y recuperar la autoestima Precedido de una excepcional acogida en todo el mundo, llega a nuestro país su esperado nuevo título de Geneen Roth, que promete convertirse en su libro más importante. Experta en trastornos alimentarios, la autora de Cuando la comida sustituye al amor y Basta de dietas ha sido la primera en relacionar la adicción a la comida con problemas personales y espirituales que van mucho más allá del peso y la imagen personal. Para Geenen Roth, comemos como vivimos: nuestra relación con la comida es el reflejo exacto de convicciones muy arraigadas sobre nosotros mismos. Todo lo que pensamos sobre el amor, el miedo y la transformación se expresa delante de un plato. Por eso, las dietas nunca solucionarán nuestros problemas. La clave, afirma la autora, radica en prestar atención a nuestro cuerpo. En hacer espacio a los sentimientos de soledad, de inadecuación, de vacío que nos empujan a comer. Tan inteligente como compasivo, este libro transformador proporciona los recursos necesarios para cambiar la relación con la comida y, lo que es más importante, con una misma.

Geneen Roth mostra como aquilo que comemos e a maneira como nos relacionamos com a comida está intrinsecamente ligado à maneira como nos sentimos e vemos a nós mesmos. Com um texto envolvente, objetivo e divertido, Mulheres, Comida & Deus baseia-se em casos reais, e mostra que a comida está longe de ser o único prazer verdadeiro em nossas vidas.

O fim da autossabotagem! Frequentemente, nossas emoções interferem pesadamente em nossas escolhas alimentares. E quantas vezes temos plena consciência disso e ainda assim as fazemos? Este livro explica de maneira eficaz como é possível vencer esse dilema cotidiano. Por meio de seus livros, Geneen Roth vem ensinando, para milhares de leitores nas últimas duas décadas, como alcançar um maior entendimento sobre os motivos pelos quais fazemos as escolhas e como elas se relacionam com nossa alimentação. O importante é que o leitor se tornará mais consciente de suas necessidades tanto físicas quanto emocionais para construir uma vida satisfatória que não gire em torno da comida.

Manger jusqu''à en perdre la raison et toujours recommencer puisque c''est d''amour dont notre faim cherche à se rassasier. Enfants, nous nous sommes fixés sur cette manière de nous aimer pour survivre à des manques qui nous auraient dévorés. La nourriture est devenue une forme d''amour qui ne nous a jamais trahis. Mais elle n''est toujours qu''un substitut. Comme en témoigne si clairement Geneen Roth, notre parcours de guérison ne passe ni par les régimes répétés ni pas les actes volontaires. C''est en nous-mêmes qu''il faut revenir, en notre histoire et jusqu''en notre souffrance pour aller chercher nos raisons obstinées de manger plutôt que d''aimer. Cette réflexion confrontante touche tous ceux d''entre nous qui entrent dans une voie de croissance, quels que soient leurs comportements de dépendance. Pour grandir, nous avons à combler nous-mêmes notre manque par le choix délibéré d''apprendre à nous aimer.

Não seja refém da comida! No entanto, como efeito da vida moderna, é comum transformamos a comida em nossa única fonte de prazer. Quando isso acontece, a autoestima e o corpo logo dão sinais de que há algo de errado. Esse é um sinal a que precisamos estar atentos. Geneen Roth afirma que o caminho para redescobrir o prazer em outras coisas na vida é o mesmo para a recuperação da autoestima. Encontrar outras fontes de prazer na vida, além da comida, é o caminho proposto no livro. Descobrindo o prazer além da comida vai ajudar os leitores a quebrar paradigmas e padrões autoperpetuados e mostrar como satisfazer todas as fomes – física e emocional – sem deixar de priorizar o amor próprio.

The bestselling author of "When Food Is Love" helps overeaters 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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De quoi avez-vous faim? Etes-vous sûre qu''il s''agisse de nourriture ? Et si vous mangiez pour combler un vide, une colère ou une solitude ? A partir de sa propre expérience de l''anorexie et de l''obésité, Geneen Roth vous convaincra que votre relation à la nourriture révèle tout de vous : la recherche d''un exutoire à vos difficultés, le désir d''anesthésier vos sentiments réels, votre manque de confiance, vos croyances et vos peurs. Les femmes, la nourriture et Dieu a aidé des centaines de milliers de femmes à ne plus se battre contre leur poids. Il vous permettra de vous réconcilier avec votre corps et votre image, en vous connectant à cette part de vous-même qui est déjà parfaite.