Food for Love: Healing the Food, Sex, Love & Intimacy Relationship Greeson, Janet

Janet Greeson maps the tangled wires between appetite and affection — how we use food to numb desire, avoid intimacy, or fill the space where connection should be. This isn't a diet book disguised as therapy. It's an exploration of why we reach for the fridge when what we're hungry for is touch, validation, or love. Greeson draws on psychology, case studies, and her own clinical work to untangle emotional eating from deeper patterns around sex, self-worth, and relationships. If you've ever eaten your feelings or noticed how desire and hunger blur together, this offers language for what's happening beneath the surface. For anyone circling the same patterns with food and intimacy, wondering why the loop never breaks.