This is an extremely helpful book for anyone who struggles with emotional eating.

interesting, but also really bad.

hj

it doesn't give any real tips or anything but if ur looking for an easy read on some people's experiences then this is the book for u. 3.5 tbh

http://www.llgolden.com/2016/06/getti...

Read all her books. They were all important, insightful and helpful.

I like this author, gave me lots to think about.

Listening to Geneen felt like a long, warm hug. Although the information weren’t brand new or groundbreaking to me, sometimes you just need to hear out loud the things you already know and believe in. Hearing them from someone else makes them more true.

“The purpose of healing is not to be forever happy—that is impossible. The purpose of healing is to be awake, and to live while you are live instead of dying while you are alive.”

I liked Roth's second book better, though the poems and content from others was interesting and further proved to me the ubiquitous nature of women's issues with food and eating for reasons other than the physical.

This book, and others by Geneen Roth, was recommended to me by a med student working with my physician. She too had struggled with her weight and had found answers that changed her life through Ms. Roth's ideas.

Ms. Roth's philosophy is that intuitively we know what we should be eating to be healthy, that forcing ourselves to follow strict diets may work for some but not for all, and that if someone learns to truly love themself they, too, will take good care of their health and their body--naturally. They will learn to "listen" to what their body needs, not what their emotions want.

There is much in her book to ponder, but this quote from the last page was like manna from Heaven to me:

"The thrill is indescribable when, having decided long ago that your compulsive eating is hopeless, you discover that you do have the ability to choose what to eat and when, that you really don't ever have to go on another diet (it's not a lie), and that, in addition to all this, you are losing weight. It is as if you have been crawling over parched and barren land for years, have given up hope of ever finding meadows, and then suddenly you come upon green lushness and thousands of china-blue irises, pulsing and swaying to a windsong."

I can't wait for the windsong. I feel it is coming. I hear the first measure of what I hope will one day be a full symphony.

Meh. This is the workshop audiobook and not the actual book, probably should have read the real thing.

I didn’t relate to this one...it’s more about compulsive eating & being overweight. A lot of it seems to be about weight loss...which I found irritating. I struggle with completely different eating issues.

It’s just a lot of the same stuff Geneen Roth has said in her other books & it just annoyed me. Although she does have some good insights, I’m just getting annoyed with her in general.

This actually gave me more anxiety about eating & gaining weight.

2.5