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  • Geneen Roth Bounces Back from Madoff

    What Geneen Roth Learned About the Past & Money

    Geneen Roth Lost and FoundYesterday, on the flight from Detroit to San Francisco, I read Geneen Roth’s new book – Lost and Found – Unexpected Revelations About Food and Money. The book is an eye-opening exploration of how the past and our unconscious attitudes about money can wreak havoc in our lives.

    Geneen pulls no punches in the book. From “grovelling for dollars” to “Madoff rage” to the “specter of homelessness,” Lost and Found is a candid revelation about what Geneen learned by losing her life’s savings in Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme. The book gives us insight into Geneen Roth’s open-ended inquiry into her relationship with money, her unconscious attitudes toward money, her life habits around money, and how she has begun to free herself from it all through awareness & inquiry.

    It takes a lot of courage to reveal so many personal and intimate details as Geneen has in her book. The gift of it for the reader is that we can connect with her and her experience in a real way. Lost and Found isn’t a dispassionate treatise on the effects and insights of falling victim to one of the greatest con men of all time, nor is it a tale of “woe is me.” Lost and Found is more a journey of revelation from a person responding to a “wake up call” from reality.

    We are fortunate to have a person like Geneen Roth who can show us the beauty and power of bringing awareness and inquiry into all of our life.

    (BTW – The magazine cover is wishful thinking, though
    I hope to see Geneen Roth soon on the cover of Time!)

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  • Geneen Roth – Lost & Found

    Lost and Found: Unexpected Revelations About Food and Money

    Geneen Roth Lost and FoundGeneen Roth’s new book will be released on March 22. I pre-ordered mine on Amazon yesterday. You may recall that Geneen was one of Bernie Madoff’s victims, but instead of playing the victim role, Geneen took a serious look at her situation, what got her there and did what she always does – started looking into the depths of her psyche and behavior to understand herself better.

    As she was exploring her patterns an beliefs, she managed to release her best selling book to date: Women,Food & God. The book took off like a rocket, hopefully helping her to reverse some of her financial misfortune.

    I’ve been looking forward to her new book ever since she told me she was writing it about a year ago. Here’s what the publisher says about Lost and Found: Unexpected Revelations About Food and Money:

    When Geneen Roth and her husband lost their life savings, Roth joined the millions of Americans dealing with financial turbulence, uncertainty, and abrupt reversals in their expectations. The resulting shock was the catalyst for her to explore, in workshops and in her own life, how women’s habits and behaviors around money-as with food-can lead to exactly the situations they most want to avoid. Roth identified her own unconscious choices-binge shopping followed by periods of budgetary self-deprivation, “treating” herself in ways that ultimately failed to sustain, and using money as a substitute for love-among others. As she examined the deep sources of these habits, she faced the hard truth about where her “self-protective” financial decisions had led. As in all her books, Roth relates her personal experience with irreverent humor and hard- won wisdom. Here, she offers provocative and radical strategies for transforming how we feel and behave about the resources that should, and ultimately can, sustain and support our lives.

    I think Geneen Roth is taking her work and writing to a whole new level.

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  • Geneen Roth Next to Laura Bush

    Geneen Roth Winds Up Next to Former First Lady Laura Bush

    I’m working my way through Women, Food & God by Geneen Roth. Geneen has written a best-seller in my opinion. Her knowledge, experience and wisdom of what drives us to eat is exceptional. Her insights and stories are humorous and challenging.

    Women Food God Geneen RothAs I was walking thorough the Detroit airport the other day, I saw this book stand facing the concourse. I loved the fact that Geneen’s book is sitting right next to Laura Bush’s. Geneen  deserves a best-seller, not only because what she has to offer is so valuable and needed by so many, but she is also on the rebound from being victimized by the Bernie Madoff scam.

    A day after returning to California, I was in Borders Books in San Ramon and there, too, Women, Food, & God is sitting next to Laura Bush. I guess it may be part of the marketing plan. I notice that these two books are also at eye-level – giving them even greater exposure to passing eyes.

    Being the number one recommend book in Oprah’s newsletter a couple of months ago, probably helped to propel Women, Food and God into the stratosphere as well.

    I am on a wellness journey myself and have started a blog AgeLESSing – Anti-Aging to serve as my accountability partner. So far, I’m down 12 pounds and three belt notches. Instead of dieting, I am changing my lifestyle – focusing more on health & wellness.

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  • Geneen Roth Makes Oprah’s List

    Oprah’s Must Read List –
    Women, Food & God

    My friend and author, Geneen Roth, made Oprah’s must read list:

    Women Food & God

    Week of March 19, 2010
    The Book Oprah Wants Everyone to Read
    What are you hungry for? Hint: It’s not food. In fact, it’s everything but food. Oprah calls Geneen Roth’s provocative new book, Women, Food and God, a must-read. Learn the self-defeating truths about dieting and the path to a full and healthy life.

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  • Naked Courage

    Transparency is the Rage

    We need more transparency in government, financial institutions, blogs, underwear and everything else – depending on who you talk to and the nature of their obsession.

    geneen_roth_eating_disordersGeneen Roth suffered from eating disorders for much of her life. She has helped tens of thousands of others suffering with emotional eating disorders, food bingeing, diet swinging, depression – and a whole lot of other systemic symptoms. Geneen has written many books, led many workshops, been on Oprah and more. She is intelligent, loving and compassionate. But those are not her greatest assets in my opinion.

    Getting Naked with the Truth

    Geneen knows how to get naked with others in a way that serves the soul’s longing for freedom. Being naked, or transparent, is not an easy thing. There is a depth of courage, integrity and commitmment needed to be naked in a real way – a way that serves others as well as one’s self.

    Reading this article today brought tears to my eyes as I once again witnessed my friend, Geneen, getting naked for the truth.

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  • Jewels, Food & Balloons

    ballons ballonmanThis title sounds like a party is near! In a way it is. Let me take a minute to introduce a few friends. These are unique and creative individuals. They have differnt vehicles to earn their livelihoods. They are intimate with many Open-Secrets as they are each dedicated to exploring their limitations and moving toward more openness and authenticity.

    Holly & Greg Beck have been creating balloon art and displays for over 17 years. Balloons have helped them to raise three children, purchase a fine house and connect with great friends like yours truly. An evening around the Beck’s kitchen island or outside barbeque has soothed many a soul and stirred up just as many. Dr. Inquiry, Greg, can hold your feet to the fire with some of his probing questions. When she is not scurrying all over the Bay Area with a van full of balloons, Holly is involved in quantumn health, healing the land from various psychic traumas, and communing with her yard and garden in a Findhorn kind of way. You want balloons see the Balloonman, they work with many of the large corporattions in the Bay Area as well as small businesses and individuals.

    cathleen bunt fine jewelryCathleen Blunt is an artist who lives in another dimension. Cathleen is a real beauty, but the beauty that pours out of her soul creates some of the most spectacular jewelry you will ever see. Meeting Cathleen is like waking up to a day of possibilities that you could never imagine. If you want something exquisite for your beloved, visit Cathleen’s Gallery.

    geneen roth emotional compulsive eatingGeneen Roth has been the angel of compassion, hope and wisdom to thousands of people worldwide. Geneen has published more tha half a dozen books addressing the spiritual issues surrounding emotional and compulsive eating disorders. Geneen is the emodiment of her wisdom. What she writes and teaches she acquired the old fashion way – she walked the journey. In wrestling with her own issues around food and compulsion, Geneen discoverd a whole body of knowledge and understanding that she nows shares with the world. Visit Geneen if you or those dear to you wrestle with food demons.

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