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In this moving and intimate book, Geneen Roth, shows how dieting and compulsive eating often become a substitute for intimacy. Drawing on painful personal experience as well as the candid stories of those she has helped in her seminars, Roth examines the crucial issues that surround compulsive 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 the cycle of compulsive behavior can be stopped. This book will help readers break destructive, self-perpetuating patterns and learn to satisfy all the hungers - physical and emotional - that make us human. "A life-changing book." "An elegant portrayal of the relationship between eating and intimacy.
Geneen Roth's personal sharing is poignant, an act of courage, and
a model for healing." "Persuasive and perceptive."
"This book has given me...a way to heal and a way to go on. I owed
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"Wise,
loving, tough and tender. A beautiful book. Geneen knows how to
nourish the heart!" "This is a totally brilliant book-beautiful and fierce and sweet
and at times, very funny. Geneen Roth walks boldly, bravely into
the excruciating truth of love's losses, and life's losses, and
the healing gift of an open heart. She renders each moment of
this tale with illumination and flair, astonishing psychological
and spiritual insight, and gorgeous writing. I was utterly blown
away." "What can you say about a book that has a cat for a guru, the
death of a father, a wedding, several myth-sized mothers, and
a spiritually alive author? Read it, laugh with it, and become
a little more of a human being." [More on The Craggy Hole in My Heart and the Cat Who Fixed It] |
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Breaking Free From Emotional Eating teaches that there is an end to the anguish of compulsive emotional eating - and this book tells how to achieve it. Geneen Roth, who has brought understanding and acceptance to tens of thousands of readers, outlines a proven program for resolving the conflicts at the root of eating disorders. Using simple techniques developed in her highly successful seminars, she offers reassuring practical advice and many tools and strategies to help you break the binge-diet cycle forever. Based on the principles taught in Geneen Roth's nationwide Breaking Free Workshops, it is a how-to program that works; a guide book to be used for daily support, direction and encouragement. This book gives tools you can use in your day-to-day life in your search for help with emotional overeating. |
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This is how Geneen Roth remembers her time as an emotional overeater and self-starver. After years of struggle, Roth finally broke free from the destructive cycle of bingeing and purging. In the two decades since her triumph, she has gone on to help tens of thousands of others do the same through her lectures, workshops, and retreats. Those she has met during this time have shared stories that are both heartrending and inspiring, which Roth has gathered for this unique book. Twenty years after its original publication, Feeding the Hungry Heart continues to inspire women and men, helping them win the battle against a hunger that goes deeper than a need for food. |
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Why is feeling fat as common among size four women as among size sixteen's? Why should you carry a chunk of chocolate everywhere? What is the "suffering contest", and why is losing it so important? When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull up a Chair is bestselling author Geneen Roth's witty tell-all about the secret ways we sabotage ourselves every day, as well as an inspired book on how we can learn to live, love and celebrate life no matter what. |
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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. |
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This remarkable guided workbook shows emotional 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 successful 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 concrete, constructive, reassuring guidelines and helps you peel back the layers of your emotional eating until you get to the very heart of the matter. This workbook will allow you to work alone, at your own pace, or as a guide for support groups. |
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Geneen's lectures now available in downloadable MP3 format for instant help!
THE BODY CONSCIOUS THE DEEPEST HUNGER OF ALL EVERYDAY EATING THE TRUE MEANING OF THE EATING GUIDELINES WHAT TO DO IN THE MIDDLE OF A BINGE Multi-disk albums are also now available: THE WORKSHOP BREAKING FREE FROM EMOTIONAL EATING Check Geneen's Getting Started Learning Packages, also available with MP3 downloads. |
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