It was a hard month, full of personnel issues, travel, a nagging cold, and long, long, long hours. Don't think I had more than one day in a row off all month long. But work has finally reached a point where I can come up for air. Thank god. So, welcome October. I'm ready to give myself some TLC and re-focus on IE. Starting off with a Geneen Roth workshop next weekend in Seattle, which I'm really looking forward to. Hopefully, I'll get a few months of relative calm before the next work cyclone. But for now, I'll just cherish the downtime while it lasts. Thanks for sticking with me folks. Hopefully I'll be back on track this month with a lot more posts.
I was thinking of attending the same workshop. But, alas will not be able to. I do hope it is everything you desire for it to be and even more besides! Since reading some of Geneen Roths books and now doing some internet exploring I have come across Tribole and Resch and have ordered their material also. Are you able to give me your perspective on their program of Intuitive Eating, and also comparing it to other literature that is out there, such as the Roth material? I would like to arm myself with the best and user-friendly information. When I read your blog post for the 3rd I thought to myself, I could have written that! So, I guess this means we are in this together!
ReplyDeleteAll the best! Would love to hear how your Workshop in Seattle is.
Carolyn
The only Geneen Roth book I've read is WFG. I'd come across her before, but could never quite relate to the emotional eating philosophy the way I perceived her delivering it, so I never purchased any of her books. Always sounded to me like she was for the person who had some sort of food related emotional trauma and that wasn't me. I always just thought I liked to eat! But when I saw her on Oprah, I related to her message. When I read WFG, I felt like she was talking directly to me, most of the time. Not sure if I just never gave her other books a chance, or she finally delivered the message in a way that made sense to me. Or maybe, I was in a place where I was ready to accept it and wasn't before. Who knows?
ReplyDeleteTribole and Resch on the other hand, were my introduction to IE. I found their book very valuable and could relate to it right away. Also, it seemed a bit more structured, if you need that kind of thing. And much more practical and less touchy feely (for lack of a better term).
I find both books very helpful and am starting to explore beyond them. (I'm sure I'll write some reviews of the others I'm reading right now, but I have to find time to finish them first. LOL.) I've come across a number of women who find WFG too much theory and chatter, and feel that it doesn't give them the tools to implement IE. I can understand that criticism. Don't know if that's true of Geneen's other books. But I think that understanding more of why I eat has been really helpful and the Tribole and Resch book helps me develop a plan to address it. So the two books work well together, for me.
Just my $0.02. Hope that helps!