224 pg, hardcover, '10

After more than three decades of studying, teaching, and writing about what drives our compulsions with food, Roth begins this book with her most basic concept: The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. She then shows how going beyond the food and feelings takes you deeper into realms of spirit and soul to the bright center of your own life. She writes, "Your relationship with food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom."

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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.

REVIEWS:

"Geneen Roth has written an extraordinary book — at once beautiful, moving, funny and searing. Most important, she gives us a practical way to use our bodies — along with some of the most difficult parts of our emotional lives — as gracious and transformative portals to our soul."
— Rick Foster, coauthor of Happiness & Wealth and How We Choose to Be Happy

"Women, Food and God is daring, dazzling, funny, comforting, wise and profoundly spiritual. It maps the journey from the darkness of obsession to the pure sense of being, in prose so insightful and astonishing, it left me breathless. Geneen Roth is an international treasure, and her new book is a gift to us all."
— Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., author of Five Wishes and coauthor of Conscious Loving

"Geneen Roth does it again! Women, Food and God is absolutely mesmerizing. And loaded with insights which can change your life."
— Christiane Northrup, M.D., ob-gyn physician and author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause

"A hugely important work, a life-changer, one that will free untold women from the tyranny and fear and hopelessness around their bodies."
— Anne Lamott, author of Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith