Geneen Roth: It’s Not About Your Mother—Finding Love, Finally
5/7/202659 min
After decades of therapy, retreats, and every healing modality available, Geneen Roth discovered that her fraught relationship with her 97-year-old mother wasn't actually about her mother. Tami Simon speaks with the bestselling author of Women, Food, and God about her new book Love Finally—and the six-step process that transformed her most painful wound into her most unexpected liberation.
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.
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First 90 secondsTami Simon· Host0:00
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Geneen Roth· Guest0:02
[gentle music] What kind of child is that? A child who is irrelevant, a child who is damaged, a child who doesn't matter. What was painful now was that I had installed those lies, and they had become the perceptual lens through which not only did I see myself, but I saw everything else, and that is something I could do something about.
Tami Simon· Host0:34
In this episode of Insights at the Edge, my guest is Geneen Roth, the author of 11 books, including the New York Times bestseller Women, Food, and God. Geneen is an expert at helping people look deeply at what drives emotional eating and what drives us as human beings. Through her retreats and workshops, she's helped thousands of people step out of exhausting cycles of control, shame, and self-judgment, and discover something far more lasting and fundamental. We could call it peace. Geneen Roth has now written a new book. I have to say, it's my favorite of all her books. It's called Love Finally: