Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

155 Pages·2011·1.36 MB·English

by  Geneen Roth

Women, Food and God

Cover Page
Front Flap
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Prologue: The World on Our Plates
Part One: Principles
Chapter One: About God
Chapter Two: Ending the War
Chapter Three: Never Underestimate the Inclination to Bolt
Chapter Four: It’s Not About the Weight but It’s Not Not About the Weight
Chapter Five: Beyond What’s Broken
Chapter Six: Reteaching Loveliness

Part Two: Practices
Chapter Seven: Tigers in the Mind
Chapter Eight: Married to Amazement
Chapter Nine: Breath by Breath
Chapter Ten: The GPS from the Twilight Zone

Part Three: Eating
Chapter Eleven: Those Who Have Fun and Those Who Don’t
Chapter Twelve: If Love Could Speak
Chapter Thirteen: Being Hot Fudge Sundaes
Chapter Fourteen: The “Oh Shit” Mantra

Epilogue: Last Words
Acknowledgments
Beginning Inquiry
The Eating Guidelines
Back Flap
Back Cover

Previous Books by Geneen Roth
When Food Is Love
The Craggy Hole in My Heart and the Cat Who Fixed It
Breaking Free from Emotional Eating
Feeding the Hungry Heart
When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull Up a Chair
Appetites
Why Weight?

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Roth, Geneen.
Women, food, and God / Geneen Roth.
p. cm.
1. Compulsive eating—Psychological aspects. 2. Food habits—Psychological
aspects. 3. Obesity—Psychological aspects. 4. Self-help techniques. I. Title.
RC552.C65R674 2010
616.85'26—dc22 2009021071
ISBN 978-1-4165-4307-7
ISBN 978-1-4391-6738-0 (ebook)
The names and details of some individuals have been changed.
For those who despair that there is no way through.
And for my retreat students,
who are living testimony that there is.
This is for you.
Contents
Prologue: The World on Our Plates
PART ONE
PRINCIPLES
Chapter One: About God
Chapter Two: Ending the War
Chapter Three: Never Underestimate the Inclination to Bolt
Chapter Four: It’s Not About the Weight but It’s Not Not About the Weight
Chapter Five: Beyond What’s Broken
Chapter Six: Reteaching Loveliness
PART TWO
PRACTICES
Chapter Seven: Tigers in the Mind
Chapter Eight: Married to Amazement