Women, food & God

Buy Now - Women, Food, and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything  $29.97                                                     
Review by  co-founder and host of New Dimensions, Justine Toms on www.vibrantnation.com May 2010

This book is great because it’s about not only the relationship with food, but about how food is a microcosm of our relationship with life itself. The author talks about isolation. She talks about spirituality. In her own background, she’s gained and lost over a 1,000 pounds. In her own lifetime has been under 100 pounds and over 200 pounds at any one time. But for the last 20 years, she has been able to conquer that. For some of us, food is a battleground rather than a pleasure, and she talks about ending the war. It’s beyond losing weight or dieting or anything like that. It’s about how to live life and go from any kind of obsession to being in presence, inhabiting and feeling and sensing that bigger piece of life that we’re all a part of. So the book could really be about any kind of obsession. I love one of her chapter heads. It’s called “Married to Amazement.” That’s right up my alley, because I think life truly is amazing.


Further reviews/comments:
ANNE Lamont, author of Grace (eventually): Thoughts on Faith - "A hugely important work, a life-changer, one that will free untold women from the tyranny of fear and hopelessness around their bodies."
"Women, Food and God is a daring, Dazzling, funny and comforting, wise and profoudly spiritual.  It maps the journey from the darkness of obsession to the pure sense of being, in prose so insightful and astonishing, it left me breathless.  Geneen Roth is an international treasure, and her new book is a gift to us all."  Gay Hendricks, PH.D., author o the Five Wishes and co-author of Conscious Loving