Geneen Roth Quotes

Separate the desire to be thin from the desire to be cherished.

Change, if it is to be long lasting, must occur on the unseen levels first

Healing is about being awake. Being broken and whole at the same time.

We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable.

Live as if they know that they are worth their own time. Live as if they deserve to take care of their bodies. Live as

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company

You can deal with the loneliness one night at a time. But what you can't deal with is the idea of loneliness, the fear of it.

If you want to eat when you're not hungry, you're hungry for something else.

Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake.

For every diet there's an equal and opposite binge (bulimia which is binging and purging is another way of depriving yourself).

Ask: is what I'm doing and thinking right now bringing me closer to myself or farther away? Opening my heart or closing it? You have a choice.

How you eat is how you live.

If you treat your feelings with as much love as you treat your dog or your cat or your child you'll feel as if you were living in heaven.

Its not so much that we believe what we see, but that we see what we believe

The process is the goal.

Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves.

Your relationship to food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom.

We are strong where we were broken.

We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel.

Take time to thank your body.

Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.

Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.

I live between fearing doom and wishing for it.

The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment.

If there are any cages in this marriage, it is I who have built them. And I who hold the key to their locks.

The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.

No act of love is ever wasted.

If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always.

It's important to focus on the good in life and appreciate it.

We eat the way we live.

You can rescue yourself. No matter how you feel, no matter what you believe about your worth or your capacity to love and be loved, you can change.

Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.

You are lovable, you are loving; your choices about food will reflect that, if you give yourself a chance.

The obsession will end when you love yourself enough to stop hurting yourself. Who doesn't want to take care of what they love?

Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.

Imagine treating yourself with the kindness that you show people you love.

We keep wanting more because we don't let ourselves have what we already have

Come back to yourself. Return to the voice of your body. Trust that much.

Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on.

If LOVE could talk to you about your relationship with food, what would it say?

You are not your past, not your habits, not your compulsions. When you get to know who you are, anything becomes possible.

Once you discover freedom, you want to capture it, never let it go.

If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend.

The problem isn't that we have bodies; the problem is that we're not living in them.

Your body is the piece of the Universe youve been given.

We're always looking for the Big Love, the Big High, the next Big Thing to happen. We miss what's in front of us.

If you decided to reteach yourself your own loveliness today, what would you do? How would you speak to yourself? Can you allow yourself that much?

We are using the food as a doorway to understanding the rest of our lives.

Compulsive eating is only the symptom; believing that you are not worth your own love is the problem. Go for the love. You will never be sorry.

Being hungry is like being in love: if you don't know, you're probably not,

Be fully present for five minutes every day.

You will never stop wanting more until you allow yourself to have what you already have. To take it in. Savor it. Now is a good time to do that ...

You can be aware of your past without being it.

What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.

Just because we live in an insane culture doesn't mean we have to be insane too.

It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.

Chocolate, I am sure, is the concrete manifestation of love.

Just because we form an opinion about ourselves, or anyone else, doesn't mean it is true.

anytime you truly listen to your hunger and fullness, you lose weight.