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Summary: it changed my life
Review: Before I read 'When Food Is Love' 5 years ago, I never could have imagined how it would effect my life - entirely for the better. After 10 years of battling compulsive overeating, weight problems and self-hatred, I finally found something that not only helped me overcome these issues, but also explained, so very clearly, why I had had these problems for nearly half my life. And why most other women do as well. Once you fully understand the problem you can make significant changes. I did, and I've never been happier. My only regret is that I didn't have this book to read years ago. I would have enjoyed high school and college so much more!
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Summary: This style doesn't work for me
Review: Even if you aren't a compulsive eater, this book offers great insight into the world of addiction. It focuses on why we substitute food (or anything else) for love in your lives and examines events from our childhood as the reason for this inability to receive love from others. A great read, educational yet contains stories from the author's life, and others she has met, which keep it moving.
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Summary: wonderful book with great insight
Review: Even if you aren't a compulsive eater, this book offers great insight into the world of addiction. It focuses on why we substitute food (or anything else) for love in your lives and examines events from our childhood as the reason for this inability to receive love from others. A great read, educational yet contains stories from the author's life, and others she has met, which keep it moving.
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Summary: Absolutely Amazing book
Review: For anyone who has ever struggled with an eating disorder or who has used food for their comfort, this book hops into your mind and reads like it was taken from your life. Geneen touches on so many points that hit close to home and dicusses them in a way that will make you wonder if she has been reading your own personal diary. All in all, this is a wonderful book that made me stop and really examine those aspects of my life that needed attending to.
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Summary: Buy this book.
Review: Geneen Roth has a handle on what the problems concerned with compulsive eating are all about like no one else I've ever heard or read. She has been there. I have discovered so many things I never knew about myself from reading this book. After being a compulsive eater most of my 47 years, I am understanding for the first time in my life why I do the things I do, that I am not the only person to ever be abused, that there is help and hope out there. I have already stopped feeling panicky about eating and about food. I've never been touched by an author as I have been by this one. I think the only way to stop any compulsive behavior is to first understand it. An amazing, amazing effort by a woman truly anointed to stand in the office of teacher of how to heal your broken, addicted soul. Thanks to Geneen, I'm on a journey back to myself.
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Summary: VERY SACRED
Review: I AM JUST AMAZED AT THE INSIGHT,FRANKNESS, AND HONESTY MS ROTH SHARES IN THIS BOOK. HER BOOK IS A "KEEPER" AND WILL NEVER END UP WITH SOME OF MY "GARAGE SALE" BOOKS. IT IS THE TYPE OF BOOK THAT I WILL REFER TO OVER AND OVER FOR INSIGHT AND INSPIRATION WITH MY COMPULSIVE EATING PROBLEM. ALSO I LOVED THE SELF-DEPRECATING HUMOR SHE WAS ABLE TO SNEAK IN AT VARIOUS TIMES! THIS BOOK DOES INDEED READ LIKE A NOVEL AND NOT JUST A TYPICAL RUN OF THE MILL SELF-HELP BOOK. THANK YOU GENEEN!!! PS:I CANNOT WAIT TO READ ALL OF HER OTHER BOOKS ASAP AND MAYBE ATTEND HER SEMINAR.
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Summary: Good - but her other books are better
Review: I enjoyed reading this easy to read book. There was a large focus on abusive family situations - which did not resonate with me...and I think she went a little too much into her personal experiences...But every once and a while I did get some interesting insights into my own behavior.
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Summary: Delicious!
Review: I first bought a copy of WHEN FOOD IS LOVE as a Valentine's Day present for myself in 1996. I was 200 pounds overweight at the time and WHEN FOOD IS LOVE became my only non-food source of comfort, nurturance, love. I read my beloved copy from beginning to end and then started, again, at the beginning. I read WHEN FOOD IS LOVE probably 10 or more times that winter. Geneen's words became my mantra of sorts. Because of Geneen's remarkably profound insight and her willingness to share the parts of herself that she least wanted to and because of my sheer desperation, I began grasping the principles that she set forth in WHEN FOOD IS LOVE and subsequently, I lost 140 pounds. I suddenly, almost magically, found myself able to do things that I had not been able to do in my whole adult life: cross my legs, walk around the block without feeling like my legs or my heart would collapse, fit with ease into the seats at the movies. As an avid reader, people frequently ask me which book is my favorite. I often mention John Irving's A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY or Jane Hamilton's A MAP OF THE WORLD or Harper Lee's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. It simply seems too melodramatic to say that my favorite book of all-time, the book that saved my life, the book that brought me back to me is Geneen Roth's WHEN FOOD IS LOVE. So usually I don't. Instead I continue to cling to, to pore over my cherished copy - with the curled up cover, the tear-stained pages - with the absolute knowledge that Geneen's words have impacted me, touched me like no other book, with the absolute knowledge that I am a being who is worthy of compassion, grace.
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Summary: This style doesn't work for me
Review: I gave this book only 1 star because its title and subtitle are completely misleading. It is not a self-help book but a kind of autobiography focused on various "abuses" in the author's life. For people who are involved in this author's programme, this book and its author may be interesting but for me and for people who, like me, are looking for a more scientific approach, it has little value. I also don't accept the view that "abuse" (the buzz word of the 90-ties), in whatever guise, is always at the root of the problem of overeating. I admit that I haven't read the whole book - I just don't have a slightest interest in the author's life - but I thought that my review may help people who were mislead, like me, by the title and some of the other reviewers' testimonies. This is not a "no diet" self-help book, but a rather wordy autobiography. It is also slightly dated since today we know much more about emotional eating than 13 years ago when this book was written. If you need "moral support", then Roth's book is probably fine, but I think there are better ways of spending your time.
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Summary: This style doesn't work for me
Review: I gave this book only 1 star because its title and subtitle are completely misleading. It is not a self-help book but a kind of autobiography focused on various "abuses" in the author's life. For people who are involved in this author's programme, this book and its author may be interesting but for me and for people who, like me, are looking for a more scientific approach, it has little value. I also don't accept the view that "abuse" (the buzz word of the 90-ties), in whatever guise, is always at the root of the problem of overeating. I admit that I haven't read the whole book - I just don't have a slightest interest in the author's life - but I thought that my review may help people who were mislead, like me, by the title and some of the other reviewers' testimonies. This is not a "no diet" self-help book, but a rather wordy autobiography. It is also slightly dated since today we know much more about emotional eating than 13 years ago when this book was written. If you need "moral support", then Roth's book is probably fine, but I think there are better ways of spending your time.
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