{"id":25379,"date":"2026-05-07T03:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=25379"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:39:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:39:24","slug":"geneen-roth-its-not-about-your-mother-finding-love-finally","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/podcast\/geneen-roth-its-not-about-your-mother-finding-love-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"Geneen Roth: It\u2019s Not About Your Mother\u2014Finding Love, Finally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; border: 0 none;\" src=\"https:\/\/art19.com\/shows\/1632d73c-91ea-42a8-a3db-a62b135d081c\/episodes\/d827160a-a3e8-42b9-afce-1be5669afb4a\/embed?theme=light-gray-orange\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What if the relationship you&#8217;ve been trying to fix your whole life isn&#8217;t actually broken in the way you think?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This week, Tami Simon speaks with Geneen Roth\u2014author of 11 books including the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New York Times<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> bestseller <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women, Food, and God<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014about her newest and most personal book yet: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Love Finally: Untangling the Knot Between Mothers, Daughters, and Food<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 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&#8217;t about your mother. It&#8217;s about what you concluded about yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join Tami and Geneen to explore:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why the most painful legacy of childhood wounds isn&#8217;t what was done to us\u2014but the lies we decided were true about ourselves<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The six steps to freedom that Geneen learned from her mentor Coco, and how to begin working with them<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How self-rejection\u2014not the original wound\u2014is what keeps us trapped, and how awareness dissolves it<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why affirmations and forgiveness meditations don&#8217;t work\u2014and what actually does<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The surprising transformation of Geneen&#8217;s relationship with her 97-year-old mother, and what it reveals about how we change<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A candid revisiting of Geneen&#8217;s foundational teachings on intuitive eating\u2014and what she&#8217;s learned to say differently now<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What it means to be &#8220;the one you&#8217;ve been waiting for&#8221;\u2014and why that&#8217;s not a platitude but a practice<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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\u2014and why it might finally be possible to do it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listen now. \u2192<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This conversation offers genuine transmission\u2014not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together. 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