by Geneen Roth
First published 2011
After bestselling author Geneen Roth and her husband lose their life savings to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, Roth finds herself among millions of Americans facing financial chaos. The devastating loss forces her to examine her relationship with money the same way she once explored women's relationships with food. Roth discovers her own destructive patterns: shopping binges followed by extreme frugality, using purchases as emotional rewards that never satisfy, and treating money as a replacement for love. She traces these behaviors to their psychological roots and confronts how her supposedly protective financial choices actually created the problems she feared most. Through her personal crisis, Roth develops strategies for changing both feelings and behaviors around money, offering readers tools to transform their financial lives.
Genres: business, economics, non-fiction, biography-memoir, 21st-century, finance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: personal-crisis, self-reflection
207 pages · Hardcover · Viking