Geneen Roth, bestselling author and teacher of numerous workshops and retreats related to food and the compulsions that surround it, lost her life savings after investing with Bernie Madoff. Now she turns her attention to analyzing women’s relationships with money and financial issues and finds many parallels between food and finances. Narrating her own work, Roth allows her personality to permeate her reading, frequently changing her tone to convey outrage or excitement. Her experience with public speaking and narrating her previous audiobooks certainly helps her delivery. Still, she periodically alternates between a speedy, slightly tinny reading and a gentler, more deliberate approach that allows the listener time to process the intent of her words. E.N. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
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.
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.
Lost and Found: Unexpected Revelations About Food and Money
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| BN ID: | 2940169353532 |
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| Publisher: | Penguin Random House |
| Publication date: | 03/22/2011 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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