Women, Food and Love by Geneen Roth
There are a myriad of reasons to love this book. I want to buy a thousand copies of this book and give them away to my friends and family and even to a few of my most loathsome enemies.
I love this book.
For those of us who have been torturing ourselves over the years because we've felt too ugly to too whatever to be worthy of breathing, this book tells us what we need to hear: I am not broken and there is nothing about me that needs to be fixed. And while this may be something many people take for granted, the complexity and depth of this issue has plagued everyone woman who has ever dieted. Ever.
We torture our bodies because we hope that we'll be happy. And truth be told, whatever we're trying to do with our bodies is not the thing that's going to make us happy. Happy comes first.
We have to learn to treat ourselves with the same compassion we would be treating anyone else who was torturing themselves - whether it was through drugs or suicide or guilt. When I read this and the entire logical reason people do this to themselves, I was amazed.
There are so many insightful things in this book and I can't help hoping that I can hold onto this lightness that seems to have filled me right now. If I can live a life of amazement, I think I can lose the weight (that which is truly weighing me down and that what is physically weighing me down as well) once and for all.
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