When Food Is Food and Love Is Love: A Step-by-Step Spiritual Program to Break Free from Emotional Eating [AUDIOBOOK] (Audio CD)

by Geneen Roth (Author)

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Product Description
Why do we eat? It’s more than just a hunger for more food, teaches Geneen Roth. Your relationship with food is a microcosm of your relationship to being alive, and to your beliefs about trust, pleasure, deprivation, and nourishment. Now, Roth offers listeners When Food Is Food and Love Is Love—a deeply spiritual culmination of her groundbreaking work since the bestselling Feeding the Hungry Heart (Plume Books, 1993). Here, she offers her first complete at-home course to break free from emotional eating through visualizations, guided eating and mindfulness meditations, and more. Roth helps us to understand the real issues of why we turn to food, and to experience the freedom from dieting once and for all.

About the Author
Geneen Roth has authored many bestselling books including When Food Is Love (Plume Books, 1991), Breaking Free from Emotional Eating (Plume Books, 1984), and Feeding the Hungry Heart (Plume Books, 1993). She frequently appears on TV, including The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated; Unabridged edition (October 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591793637
• ISBN-13: 978-1591793632
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #284,364 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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59 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST have book!!!!, January 26, 2006

By	D. Weigel (Wisconsin USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book and ANY Geneen Roth book is a life changer. I think her bold honesty about herself makes is ok to start being honest with yourself. She will change your life! I got more out of reading her books than therapy!! She has been there and done that. Have you ever gone through a drive in and ordered enough for an entire family but it was just for you. Then you say to the little speaker things like, 'and my kids want xxx' and you don't have kids!! When we eat in the middle of the night and no one sees it....we have ourselves convinced that doesn't count. The best of the book(s) is not just how she can bring the honesty out of the closet but she really address how emotions and eating go together and what we are really doing. Brilliant!! The work book she also has is really deep! If you want to deal with your emotional eating there is no other way to handle it than by Geneen Roth. She is the best! (and I am not related to her or a personal friend!) Like I said the key to her books is she has REALLY been there and done that and won the battle. I would give more than five stars if I could. It is a life changer!!!

35 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Change your eating, change your life..., September 30, 2006

By	Rebecca Johnson "SeasonedwithLove.com" (Washington State) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)    (COMMUNITY FORUM 04)

"I believe in listening to the hunger of your body, and of your heart. Begin to actually look inside and see what it is you really, really want with your relationship with food, and how to get there." ~Geneen Roth

Geneen Roth offers hope and practical advice in this informative and revealing look at why we all eat. Everyone seems to have some issue with food and if you look around at diet books, this becomes very apparent.

So why don't diets work?
What are the secret reasons people eat in their cars?
Do most people gain the weight back?
Why should you eat without distractions?
Is food really a mirror of your relationship with love, life and
feelings about yourself?

Geneen Roth offers lifestyle choices that go beyond dieting and access our inner awareness. She explains how you can say goodbye to the dieting nightmare and become aware of what your body needs. Through this program you learn to analyze your eating habits to find out how you can change your life by changing the way you eat.

"Most of us turn to food when we feel unhappy, sad, angry, or rejected. The next time you feel an uncomfortable emotion, rather than immediately reaching for the comfort food, be curious about the feeling." ~ Geneen Roth

By gaining a deeper sensitivity to the reasons we eat what we eat we can heal the beliefs that cause the suffering, guilt and pain of making destructive food choices. Guided imagery and visualizing the past helps to uncover issues that we will face in the future.

The highlights of this program include:

The Hunger Scale
Seven Eating Guidelines
Embodiment Meditation
The Voice of the Super-Ego
What does your body want?

Geneen Roth brings up some excellent points about bringing a sense of peace to our lives through a deeper awareness of why we eat. She has worked with thousands of individuals to help them reach their weight loss goals without the need for a specific diet. "When Food is Food & Love is Love" is a program to encourage the development of new lifestyle skills and healthy attitudes about food.

~The Rebecca Review

32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Life saver 100% Recomended, June 26, 2006

By	Alexa77 (UK) - See all my reviews

You will hear from Geneen Roth herself her story and how to break free from emotional eating, im 27 years old and beign fat as a child I started to diet very early on in my life, as long as I can remember I have been on a diet, I started my first diet when i was 10 years old, so as you can imagine my life has been centered on loosing wheight and after loosing it gaining it again an so on for what it seem like an eternity.
After you here these cds that are narrated by Geneen herself you will finally understand something that will safe you life from this horrible obssesion with weight and food that makes you a slave to it, you will understand that what really matters is your relationship with food, you will understand the most important thing; that is not about food or wheight that the problem lies in your behavior arround it, in your attitude, in your way of thinking, once you change the way you think, you are on the wright path to being a healthy eater and free yourself from emotional eating, wich by consecuence will make you loose weight a live a healthier life, a life without worring all the time about food and weight wich if you are like me, could mean endless worries, endless days of feeling miserable, frustrated, and unhappy.
I havent lost much weight yet but you know what ? For the first time in my life I DONT CARE, because my relationship with food is changing, Im not bingeing as much as before and i know that im finally in the wright track, i feel that eventually a will get there, but what matters most to me know is to learn to do it in the wright way, you have to remember this is a process but i know NOW that the process has already begun and i feel great because finally, finally i have found a solution to my eating behavior, it will take time but im willing now to give me all the time i need! because im 100% sure that in time i will become a new healthy person!

And the big plus: you will feel like she is with you, everytime you listen to it you will feel like you have her support a at the tip of your fingers.

Do not hesitate to buy these CDs, and this advice comes from someone who has been on literally all kinds of diet; you name it I have done it, and from someone who now after this new perspective feels at peace!