Lost and Found: Unexpected Revelations About Food and Money - Hardcover

Roth, Geneen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670022713 ISBN 13: 9780670022717

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2011

Synopsis

The #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "Women Food and God" explores how emotional issues with money mirror those with food and dieting.
When Geneen Roth and her husband lost their life savings, 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, in workshops and in her own life, 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. As in all her books, Roth relates her personal experience with irreverent humor and hard- won wisdom. Here, she offers provocative and radical strategies for transforming how we feel and behave about the resources that should, and ultimately can, sustain and support our lives.

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Review:

Roth is courageous in her honesty. Michelle Singletary, The Washington Post
Roth teaches by example the transformative power of awareness. With compassion and humor she dismantles unconscious compulsions that bespeak an inner poverty, dissipating what she calls the trance of deficiency that hijacks financial relationships and self-worth. Fans familiar with the heart and wisdom that infuses Roth's candid writing style and makes her books memorable won't be disappointed. Publisher's Weekly
Encourages stressed-out people to step back and look the good things they have even such simple things as a treasured tea cup to help liberate themselves from old patterns. Robin Mcmacken, Grand Rapid Press (Michigan)"

About the Author:

Geneen Roth is a writer and a teacher who has gained international prominence through her work in the field of eating disorders. She is the founder of the Breaking Free workshops, which she has conducted nationwide since 1979. She is also the author of Feeding the Hungry Heart, Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating, and When Food is Love. A frequent guest on television and radio programs, she has written for and been featured in Tie, Ms., New Woman, Family Circle, and Cosmopolitan. Her poetry and short stories have been published in numerous anthologies. Born in New York City, she now lives in northern California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0670022713
• ISBN 13: 9780670022717
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 207