Uncovering the Root of Emotional Eating, with Geneen Roth

Emotional eating is not the problem, but a sign of a deeper issue. Sometimes it feels like food can provide a solution, but it’s only – and always – temporary.

Geneen Roth is the author of several books on our relationship with food. She talks with Arina about how diet culture makes it harder for women to break the emotional eating cycle, and recommends seven guidelines to help people break free from destructive patterns, like eating without distractions and stopping when the body has had enough.

Geneen also reveals how emotional eating can be an opportunity to examine deeper issues and limiting beliefs that may be holding people back.

Links

• This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide to Mind, Body, and Soul – Geneen’s latest book
• Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
• When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy
• Feeding the Hungry Heart: The Experience of Compulsive Eating
• Fat is a Feminist Issue, by Susie Orbach
• Geneen’s next Zoom retreat