Lost and Found: Unexpected Revelations About Food and Money
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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.
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Reviews for Lost and Found
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5When 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.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Geneen Roth has written many books about emotional eating and how we try to bury our problems with food. Her latest book doesn't discuss food as much as it looks into our relationship with money. Roth and her husband had invested their life savings with Bernie Madoff and lost it all. She discusses our emotional relationship with money - from never feeling like we have enough to using retail therapy to solve any problem. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. I am NOT a shopper - I try to avoid malls and stores - especially this hectic time of year. Although I couldn't relate to Roth's obsession with clothing, jewelry, shoes, I did find interesting her musings on how we have inherited that Depression era hoarding even though we live in an age of plenty.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Roth describes losing her life savings in the Bernie Madoff scandal, and how it affected her life, and forced her to examine her relationship with money. It was fairly Baby-Boom-centric, but interesting. Not as informative as I really expected it to be, but a good read, nonetheless.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unhealthy relationships to money turn out to resemble unhealthy relationships to food; both reflect how we see the world and how we really feel about ourselves. Author Geneen Roth and her husband Matt lost their life savings which were invested with Bernie Madoff. She wrote this book in the aftermath, and in it she leaves no stone unturned in exploring her dysfunctional and destructive ideas about money, food, love, family, how you can ever have enough or feel you do. I've spent years working on my own relationship to money, but I still saw echoes of undiscovered country while reading this book. I also saw my mother's toxic relationships with both food and money reflected here -- I'd never realized before they could be connected, and why. Very thought provoking and unflinchingly honest. Highly recommended.