The Companion Guide to Women, Food and God

The Companion Guide to Women, Food and God

Oprah.com | August 27, 2010

Are you ready to change the way you think about eating for good? In the next 15 weeks, take the time to explore the main lessons of Women, Food and God, chapter-by-chapter, with the ultimate reader's companion guide.

Use these questions to record your observations, insights from your book club and all the important notes and questions that arise as you read Women, Food and God. Don't need to worry about having fully formed answers as you go through each series of questions—there are no right answers! All your reactions—doubt, skepticism, confusion, aha! moments, inspiration and awareness—are important steps along the path to understanding how your relationship with food mirrors your relationship with yourself.

There's a corresponding workbook for every chapter of Women, Food and God. Choose a chapter and log in to save your answers on Oprah.com.

Prologue: The World on Our Plates
Chapter 1: About God
Chapter 2: Ending the War
Chapter 3: Never Underestimate the Inclination to Bolt
Chapter 4: It's Not About the Weight, But It's Not Not About the Weight
Chapter 5: Beyond What's Broken
Chapter 6: Reteaching Loveliness
Chapter 7: Tigers in the Mind
Chapter 8: Married to Amazement
Chapter 9: Breath by Breath
Chapter 10: The GPS from the Twilight Zone
Chapter 11: Those Who Have Fun and Those Who Don't
Chapter 12: If Love Could Speak
Chapter 13: Being Hot Fudge Sundaes
Chapter 14: The "Oh Shit" Mantra
Epilogue: Last Words

Geneen Roth's books were among the first to link compulsive eating and perpetual dieting with deeply personal and spiritual issues that go far beyond food, weight and body image. She believes that we eat the way we live and that our relationships to food, money and love are exact reflections of our deeply held beliefs about ourselves and the amount of joy, abundance, pain and scarcity we believe we have (or are allowed) to have in our lives.

Geneen has appeared on many national television shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, 20/20, The NBC Nightly News, The View and Good Morning America. Articles about Geneen and her work have appeared in numerous publications, including O, The Oprah Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Time, Elle, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and The Philadelphia Inquirer. She has written a monthly column in Good Housekeeping magazine since 2007. Geneen is the author of eight books, including The New York Times best-seller When Food Is Love and a memoir about love and loss, The Craggy Hole in My Heart. Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything is her newest book.

More from Women, Food and God:
Why Oprah says she'll never diet again
Are you a Restrictor or a Permitter? Take the quiz!
Have a question about your body or food choices? Ask Geneen now!

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