--- product_id: 6564571 title: "When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy" brand: "geneen roth" price: "£10.86" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/6564571-when-food-is-love-exploring-the-relationship-between-eating-intimacy store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy **Brand:** geneen roth **Price:** £10.86 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy by geneen roth - **How much does it cost?** £10.86 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/6564571-when-food-is-love-exploring-the-relationship-between-eating-intimacy) ## Best For - geneen roth enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted geneen roth brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy ## Images ![When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71HL9f1xj8L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Finally the truth *by G***Z on Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2009* It is neither a diet nor getting-thin-the-other-way book. This is a book about love. Well, not even about love. While the author does not state it explicitly, her story is about that comfortable and healing feeling of safety and security experienced when a person feels loved and accepted.The author has the guts and nerve to tell the truth: "... after I reached my natural weight and stayed there, I discovered that it wasn't being thin I wanted, it was getting thin." Getting-thin is the grand illusion that masks the pain by making us believe that life will turn around, and suffering will stop once we get there. No. It is not true.Geneen is interweaving her stories of struggling with weight and building a love relationship. Before the book I could only guess that these two vulnerable and sensitive areas of my life were interconnected. However, "Eating is the metaphor for the way we live," and the similarities are so painfully striking... For 25 years I kept the childish idea that getting thin means being loved and safe. Safe was the key word in my endless diets and pills and food plans and body hatred struggle. It has stopped recently. I am a bit overweight. I am loved by a nice man. I feel content with myself and life.There is no such thing as (complete) safety. While I was taught from childhood that I have to be pretty and likable to rely on others for safety either through love or friendship, I now know it is a road to suffering. The chapter about the author's Model Mugging class was a revelation. Thanks to Geneen, I also know that when I suddenly have a fat-and-ugly attack and a compelling desire to lose 40 pounds before Christmas, it means that readings of my pain and fear meters are too high. It means I need to dive into the pain and release it.The book is full of drama--I was way too exited. It is disturbing--I cried a lot while reading it. It is sometimes painful and always touching. It offers a sober and sane approach. It stops that grand illusion.The book is also a keeper. I will not give it away, even to my good friends. I would buy several more copies for them instead. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars I finally understand what my therapists meant. *by E***E on Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2020* I've been in therapy for years struggling with an obsession with food. Two separate therapists have tried to dig into my childhood loneliness, but I couldn't connect the emptiness to eating beyond a surface level of awareness. I couldn't *identify* any feelings I needed to grieve for. None of it seemed important or traumatic enough.The raw, personal, SPECIFIC writing in this book - the emphasis on her perspective as a child, on her clients' perspectives as children - finally exposed those concepts for me in a way that was concrete instead of generic and abstract. From the first page, every other passage was a punch to the gut. She does NOT pull her punches.My therapist did point out, and was right in an abstract way, that food was there when affection wasn't. But, the author describing how she was called "selfish" as a child for having childlike needs - how food was a way to give to herself and experience pleasure when she felt pressured to care for others and be selfless - how she wandered from empty room to empty room before stopping at the fridge - how she learned to survive by the fantasy that she would be loved when she got thin - these descriptions accessed that truth in a much deeper way. She may as well have been telling the story of my own childhood, in greater detail than I could ever remember before. The concepts are so much better communicated than generic self help instructions.I'm not sure where to go from here, besides bringing all the highlighted passages to therapy. But I'm at least fairly certain I won't be taking these feelings to the fridge. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars This was so interesting *by L***A on Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2023* It was like a flashback to the 80s! Omg a lot of stuff that I remember from my childhood are mentioned even though the book is dated a lot of the information is useful and can still apply to today crazy enough ! ## Frequently Bought Together - When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy - Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/6564571-when-food-is-love-exploring-the-relationship-between-eating-intimacy](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/6564571-when-food-is-love-exploring-the-relationship-between-eating-intimacy) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Kingdom* *Store origin: GB* *Last updated: 2026-05-16*