"I don't believe in inner children. I do believe that there are frozen places in ourselves--undigested pockets of pain--that need to be recognized and welcomed, so that we can contact that which has never been hurt or wounded or hungry" (Roth 7-8).
~Geneen Roth, Women Food and God
Another long, over-due review... this is becoming the story of my life, and I am not even employed. Hopefully that will soon change.
I, like everyone else in America, DVR'd the Oprah episode that declared you would never have to diet again, etc. thanks to the wisdom of Geneen Roth's bestseller. The quote above is the one that lingered with me the most throughout the book, which was part self-help, but also something more... self-discovery. When you embark on a journey within, for whatever reason and mine just happens to be food, you realize that you are a lot like an onion and until your time as the person you are on this planet has ceased, you will continuously be peeling back the layers. Tennie McCarthy is infamous for uttering, "Trust the process," and that's exactly what this piece is--another part of the process. I found the cat story very entertaining, in which she realized you cannot please everyone and bad things inevitably happen. I also loved how she pointed out that sometimes the meditation doesn't help, as well as trying not to eat on top of your pain, which is something I am extremely guilty of. She also made light of the pain her parents had brought her. By the end, I didn't feel like I was being counseled by some high-being-know-it-all-food-guru, but what I did feel like was that I was receiving honest, open information from a friend.
4/100
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