When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy [Paperback]

#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 ofFeeding the Hungry HeartandBreaking 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.

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

“A rare and special book that touches our inner selves with extraordinary courage, authenticity, and beauty. I have seen very few books with this kind of clarity and human depth. It will move you to tears and to joy. It will entertain and delight you, and it will make you a deeper and more compassionate human being.”
—John Robbins, author ofDiet for a New America

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