Cookies and Consciousness

The Wound Meets the Medicine

Geneen Roth celebrates the launch of her new memoir, Love, Finally, by sharing a preview of the chapter “The Wound Meets the Medicine.” In the excerpt, her mentor Coco guides Roth to confront the hidden conclusions formed by early emotional wounds, showing how those beliefs distort reality. Roth illustrates the process with personal anecdotes about feeling excluded, fearing abandonment, and the cycle of dieting versus bingeing. The passage ends with a question whether Coco’s method can finally break the patterns that decades of therapy have not resolved.