"You don't need to be fixed, and you're not a mistake." This
simple revelation goes to the heart of the emotional wounds that
send most of us running for cover-or for the refrigerator. We run
from the pain we believe will consume us, and are terrified to face
our own unworthiness. Often we hide behind food as our only source
of pleasure or comfort. But as those gentle words suggest, Geneen
Roth has learned that emotional eating can actually provide a
doorway that shows us where to look beyond that chocolate cake and
beneath our pain to find what it is we're really looking for. This
noted expert on food and weight issues has been there. She gained
and lost more than a thousand pounds in seventeen years, and once
doubled her weight in two months. After her roller coaster ride
took her to the edge of suicide, she found that meditation, the
death of her father and the love a male cat named Blanche helped
her find the treasures that lay just beyond the pain she'd been
struggling to avoid. With scathing honesty Ms. Roth shares her
deepest hurts and confesses the stories that most of us identify
with, but would never dare to reveal. Her clarity helps us
understand our own relationship to food, and also lets us see that
we have the capacity to move through our greatest losses with grace
and love. (Hosted by Justine Willis Toms)
Geneen Roth is a pioneer in the anti-diet movement who teaches
workshops throughout the United States to help men and women
understand and change their approach to food. Her books include
When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull up a Chair (Hyperion 1998),
and The Craggy Hole in My Heart and the Cat Who Fixed It: Over the
Edge and Back With My Dad, My Cat and Me (Harmony 2004).
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