{"id":27486,"date":"2026-09-17T03:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=27486"},"modified":"2026-09-17T06:09:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:09:49","slug":"just-one-question-geneen-roth-how-do-i-work-with-my-hateful-voice","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/podcast\/just-one-question-geneen-roth-how-do-i-work-with-my-hateful-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Just One Question | Geneen Roth: How Do I Work With My Hateful Voice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/art19.com\/shows\/1632d73c-91ea-42a8-a3db-a62b135d081c\/episodes\/41a6e96c-ddb3-44ee-905e-effa6e1d95b5\/embed?theme=dark-custom&#038;primary_color=%23F60F60\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; border: 0 none;\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There&#8217;s the pain of a hard thing happening, and then there&#8217;s the voice that shows up afterward to tell you it was your fault. Geneen Roth says those two are not the same \u2014 and confusing them is what keeps people stuck for years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Geneen is the bestselling author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feeding the Hungry Heart<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women Food and God<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and a longtime teacher on how our relationships with food, money, and self-worth run on the same wiring. When she spoke with Tami in 2009, she had just lost thirty years of savings to Bernie Madoff, and the inner critic that followed was loud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What makes her answer land is how practical it gets. She doesn&#8217;t tell you to be nicer to yourself. She describes a sequence \u2014 notice, name, and if that isn&#8217;t enough, say the cruelty out loud until you can hear what it actually sounds like. This one crossed our desk from the very first <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insights at the Edge<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ever recorded, and we knew we had to bring it back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>In this episode:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The difference between devastation, which is honest, and the raging voice, which Geneen says has no value at all<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why you can&#8217;t investigate what went wrong while the critic is running \u2014 shame collapses the space where truth could show up<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The practice of writing or speaking the voice in &#8220;you&#8221; terms, so there&#8217;s finally a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">you<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and an <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> instead of just one merged verdict<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why Geneen never found the &#8220;fight back hard&#8221; approach useful, and what she does instead<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taken from the full <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insights at the Edge<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> conversation with Geneen Roth. 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