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'No matter how sophisticated or wealthy or broke or enlightened you are, how you eat tells all'.
I was introduced to this book by my daughter-in-law and an Oprah Winfrey programme on New Zealand TV. Oprah enthused about this book for the entire programme and had an audience of women whose lives had been touched and changed by this book. Of course, I rushed out and bought it.
The blurb on the back says ' A knock your socks off ride to a deeply fulfilling relationship with food, your body....and almost everything else. Women Food and God is, quite simply, a guide for life'
If you suffer in your relationship with food....you eat too much or too little, think about what you eat constantly or try not to think about it at all....you can be free. Just look down at your plate. The answers are there. Don't run. Look. Because when we welcome what we most want to avaoid, we contact the part of ourselves that is fresh and alive. We touch the life we truly want.
After three decades of studying, teaching and writing about what drives our compulsion with food, Geneen Roth adds a profound new dimension to her work in Women Food and God. She begins with her most basic concept: the way you eat is inseperable from your core beliefs about being alive. Roth powerfully urges us to pay attention to what we truly need....which cannot be found in a supermarket. She provides seven basic guidelines for eating and shares reassuring, practical advice that has helped thousands of women. Ultimately, she reveals how our relationship with food is the doorway to freedom and what we want most: the demystification of weight loss, and the luminous presence that so many of us call 'God'.
Now isn't that refreshing ! Getting away from calories, food content and all that jazz and actually looking at what is going on in our hearts! What we are trying to run away from. I like it. (Watch this space)
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