When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy
“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...
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From the internationally acclaimed author of Feeding the Hungry Heart, Breaking Free From Compulsive Eating, andWhy Weight? comes a wholly original look at the profound connections between the way we eat and the way we love.When Food Is Love examines the motivations behind bingeing and obsessive dieting, and explains how such compulsive behavior sabotages intimate relationships. With compassion and penetrating wisdom, Geneen Roth reveals how to break destructive emotional patterns and learn to satisfy all the hungers—physical and emotional-that make us human. Publishers Weekly This is the fourth book ( Feeding the Hungry Heart, etc.) generated by the seminars Roth conducts at her Berkeley, Calif., home for people who believe that if they were thin, they would be happy. But the author makes clear that losing weight doesn't automatically gain one success, respect and love. Roth's personal story and those of her clients as related here exemplify the need to discover why the overweight are addicted to food. Citing her own deprived childhood, the author demonstrates that gluttons seek the reliable comforts of eating instead of closeness with humans who might become abusive (like her mother) or vanish (like her father). Those bent on self-improvement will find that the book merely repeats well-known principles in a melodramatic fashion. (Mar.)
When Food Is Love Acknowledgments Introduction\ Chapter 1. When Food Is Love\ Chapter 2. Being In and Out of Control\ Chapter 3. The Comfort of Suffering\ Chapter 4. Wanting What Is Forbidden\ Chapter 5. The One-Wrong-Move Syndrome\ Chapter 6. Grieving for the Lost Years\ Chapter 7. Being a Victim, Being Powerful\ Chapter 8. Being Strong in the Broken Places\ Chapter 9. When Love Is Love
\ Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly\ This is the fourth book ( Feeding the Hungry Heart, etc.) generated by the seminars Roth conducts at her Berkeley, Calif., home for people who believe that if they were thin, they would be happy. But the author makes clear that losing weight doesn't automatically gain one success, respect and love. Roth's personal story and those of her clients as related here exemplify the need to discover why the overweight are addicted to food. Citing her own deprived childhood, the author demonstrates that gluttons seek the reliable comforts of eating instead of closeness with humans who might become abusive (like her mother) or vanish (like her father). Those bent on self-improvement will find that the book merely repeats well-known principles in a melodramatic fashion. (Mar.)\ \
