Lost and Found, Geneen Roth
Lost and Found, Geneen Roth
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Lost and Found
Unexpected Revelations About Food and Money

Author: Geneen Roth

Narrator: Geneen Roth

Unabridged: 5 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 03/22/2011

Synopsis

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Women Food and God maps a path to meeting one of our greatest challenges-how we deal with money. When Geneen Roth and her husband lost their life savings in the Bernard Madoff debacle, 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 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. With irreverent humor and hard-won wisdom, she offers provocative and radical strategies for transforming how we feel and behave about the resources that should, and can, sustain and support our lives.

About The Author

Geneen Roth is a writer and a teacher who has gained international prominence through her work in the field of eating disorders. She is the founder of the Breaking Free workshops, which she has conducted nationwide since 1979. She is also the author of Feeding the Hungry Heart, Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating, and When Food Is Love. A frequent guest on television and radio programs, she has written for and been featured in Tie, Ms., New Woman, Family Circle, and Cosmopolitan. Her poetry and short stories have been published in numerous anthologies. Born in New York City, she now lives in northern California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel on March 26, 2011

I'm a longtime Geneen Roth fan, and think this might be her best work yet, or at the very least, right up there, as she untangles the ways we think about money and food and what they represent. She starts with her own major loss--her and her husband's life savings of one million dollars, which had b......more

Goodreads review by Ciara on May 16, 2011

this was an interesting book but i can't co-sign it entirely because i don't have any friends that are millionaires (as far as i am aware) & i think this book would be a little alienating to anyone that was not a millionaire. which is not say that non-millionaires can't get something out of it, but......more

Goodreads review by Lain on September 06, 2011

This could very well be one of the most important books I read this year. Geneen Roth turns her wisdom and unflinching self-reflection to the topic of money. After losing her life's savings to Bernie Madoff, Roth can no longer play, "Fat, dumb and happy" with matters of the wallet. She dives into he......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on July 02, 2012

Although I don't really have "money issues", this little book made me look at the other things I've got a "scarcity paradigm" problem with. I'd pretty much call it a life-changer, and that is an understatement. If you don't have time to read the book, here is its essence in one sentence: "When we pier......more

Goodreads review by Sue on April 20, 2011

I didn't think that I would enjoy this book that much. I mean - it seemed interesting when I read about it on the library site. Peaked my curiosity so to speak. Then it sat on my TBR shelf until I realized that it had to be returned in a day and there was a reader request list a mile long waiting to......more

Quotes

“Roth is courageous in her honesty.”—Michelle Singletary, The Washington Post
 
“Roth teaches by example the transformative power of awareness. With compassion and humor she dismantles unconscious compulsions that bespeak an inner poverty, dissipating what she calls the ‘trance of deficiency’ that hijacks financial relationships and self-worth. Fans familiar with the heart and wisdom that infuses Roth's candid writing style and makes her books memorable won't be disappointed.”—Publisher's Weekly
 
“Encourages stressed-out people to step back and look the good things they have—even such simple things as a treasured tea cup—to help liberate themselves from old patterns.”—Robin Mcmacken, Grand Rapid Press (Michigan)

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