Lost and Found

Unexpected Revelations About Food and Money

By: Geneen Roth

Narrated by: Geneen Roth

The number one New York Times best-selling 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.

©2011 Geneen Roth (P)2011 Penguin

Critic reviews

“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)

Fascinating

I found the correlations between food and money to be fascinating. I am also inspired to take a closer look at my beliefs and values and how they align with my behaviors.

thank you

excellent in every way. thank you for the insight and helping me wake up.

Amazing Insight about Life

Which scene was your favorite?

Learning what Enough is and taking in what we already have.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes, so many jewels to absorb, but I wanted to take it all in!

Any additional comments?

Geneen Roth has an amazing way of leading us into ourselves, through the door way of what we suffer from most. Be it Food, Money or how we spend our Time. Her wisdom shows us what it means to really pay attention to what we already have. In addition to learning the tools of taking in and really letting ourselves have what we have now. Now in this very moment.
Her journey is amazing and we are all better for her sharing it with us.

another great book by Roth.

Geneen Roth has helped me so much with food starting when I was a teenager and I am forever grateful. Her story about losing her money is fascinating and the parallels with food are spot on. Glad I finally read this book.

Parallel to my current life

Could not believe how much this book sounded exactly like my current life! Wonderfully narrated and practical enough for me to actually start making changes in my life!

So insightful and healing

I learned so much from her authentic sharing and relatable story telling. 🙏🏻 so grateful she was willing to share so authentically.

Fantastic book

This book was recommended to me and once I started listening to it I couldn't stop. I felt like she was talking about me!

Good read to become money conscious

Author's very personal account. Story is hers but her insight was illuminating. I am now able to see a lot of my own "stuff" around money and feel empowered to change it up.

Every person should hear this book

Excellent book full of wisdom and gentle reminders of our own power of food, and money. Highly recommend! I absolutely love Geneen Roth!

A Blessing!

Geneen Roth's writing style is wonderful and her tone honest. She says what needs to be said about food and money compulsions, and calls for the Reader to do the same. In doing so she opens the door to being truthful with ourselves about what all suffering boils down to: our perceived unworthiness of self. This in itself makes the few repetitive themes easy to overlook.

As a side: she does narrate this version. Some have mentioned that her voice is grating, etc. It did take a few passages to get used to, but overall I enjoyed it. To hear her words as she meant them to be heard is wonderful.