Lost and Found (9780452297760)

The #1 New York Times bestselling author maps a path to meeting one of our greatest challenges-How we deal with money.

When Geneen Roth and her husband lost their life savings in the Bernard Madoff debacle, Roth joined the millions of Americans dealing with financial turbulence, uncertainty, and abrupt reversals in their expectations. The resulting shock was the catalyst for her to explore how women's habits and behaviors around money-as with food-can lead to exactly the situations they most want to avoid. Roth identified her own unconscious choices- binge shopping followed by periods of budgetary self-deprivation, 'treating' herself in ways that ultimately failed to sustain, and using money as a substitute for love, among others. As she examined the deep sources of these habits, she faced the hard truth about where her 'self-protective' financial decisions had led. With irreverent humor and hard-won wisdom, she offers provocative and radical strategies for transforming how we feel and behave about the resources that should, and can, sustain and support our lives.

'Provocative and penetrating . . . With compassion and humor Roth dismantles unconscious compulsions that bespeak an inner poverty.' Publishers Weekly

'Roth invites us into the socially uncomfortable discussion of money with ease and aplomb . . . She presents a literary one-stop shop of financial responsibility, social awareness, eating disorders, sexism, spirituality, and, above all, happiness.' Kirkus Reviews

'Dazzling insights and eloquent wisdom from one of the truly sophisticated minds of our time.' David Krueger, M.D., author of The Secret Language of Money

'A compelling, gorgeously written, searing, funny, and utterly inspiring book.' Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of Money