Geneen Roth: It’s Not About Your Mother—Finding Lo...
What if the relationship you’ve been trying to fix your whole life isn’t actually broken in the way you think?
This week, Tami Simon speaks with Geneen Roth—author of 11 books including the New York Times bestseller Women, Food, and God—about her newest and most personal book yet: Love Finally: Untangling the Knot Between Mothers, Daughters, and Food. After 70 years of carrying wounds she believed came directly from her mother, Roth stumbled into a teaching that cracked everything open: the pain isn’t about your mother. It’s about what you concluded about yourself.
Join Tami and Geneen to explore:
- Why the most painful legacy of childhood wounds isn’t what was done to us—but the lies we decided were true about ourselves
- The six steps to freedom that Geneen learned from her mentor Coco, and how to begin working with them
- How self-rejection—not the original wound—is what keeps us trapped, and how awareness dissolves it
- Why affirmations and forgiveness meditations don’t work—and what actually does
- The surprising transformation of Geneen’s relationship with her 97-year-old mother, and what it reveals about how we change
- A candid revisiting of Geneen’s foundational teachings on intuitive eating—and what she’s learned to say differently now
- What it means to be “the one you’ve been waiting for”—and why that’s not a platitude but a practice
Whether your relationship with your mother is tender, complicated, estranged, or something in between, this conversation offers a genuinely new way to understand where the real work lives—and why it might finally be possible to do it.
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This conversation offers genuine transmission—not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together. Originally aired on Sounds True One.
