The way we do anything is the way we do everything. The way we eat is the way we live. — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
We are using the food as a doorway to understanding the rest of our lives. — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Your relationship to food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom. — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
If LOVE could talk to you about your relationship with food, what would it say? — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
If you want to eat when you're not hungry, you're hungry for something else. — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
How you eat is how you live. How you do anything is how you do everything. — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
You are lovable, you are loving; your choices about food will reflect that, if you give yourself a chance. — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Compulsive eating is only the symptom; believing that you are not worth your own love is the problem. Go for the love.… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Diets are based on the unspoken fear that you are a madwoman, a food terrorist, a lunatic…The promise of a diet is… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Chocolate ... is not something you can take or leave, something you like only moderately. You dont like chocolate. You dont even… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“When you are not hungry and decide to eat, choose a food that you ate that day when you were hungry. Be… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
When you believe in yourself more than you believe in food, you will stop using food as if it were your only… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
And.. are you willing to go all the way? To understand that food is only a stand-in for love and possibility and… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
You will stop turning to food when you start understanding in your body, not just your mind, that there is something better...Truth,… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Bingeing is such an emotionally frenetic activity that no other concerns can exist in the same space. It is a hell that… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“But right here, right now, in the center of this wound—I’ve been abandoned and betrayed by who and what really matters and… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity, enough tenderness… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“The Eating Guidelines 1. Eat when you are hungry. 2. Eat sitting down in a calm environment. This does not include the… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
When we give up dieting, we take back something we were often too young to know we had given away: our own… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
I think we all have a hunger that's hard to name. A lot of people who come to my retreats have never… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“...compulsive eating is basically a refusal to be fully alive. No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“Pay careful attention to the bodily sensations that you recognize as hunger. When you feel yourself starting to get hungry, sit down… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Our relationship with food - how, when, what and why we eat - is a direct expression of our underlying feelings, thoughts… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
No matter how developed you are in any other area of your life, no matter what you say you believe, no matter… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
And if you worry that not finishing the food on your plate is a slap in the face of all the hungry… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe… — Geneen Roth Copy Share
“Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds--our stories of loneliness, rejection, grief--that we don't realize they are in… — Geneen Roth Copy Share
Most of our suffering comes from resisting what is already here, particularly our feelings. All any feeling wants is to be welcomed, touched, allowed.… — Geneen Roth Copy Share
The relentless attempts to be thin take you further and further away from what could actually end your suffering: getting back in touch with… — Geneen Roth Copy Share
I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to feel what… — Geneen Roth Copy Share
After initial needs are metenough food, shelter, comfortthere is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe. — Geneen Roth Copy Share
“When you ignore your belly, you become homeless. You spend your life trying to erase your own existence. Apologizing for yourself. Feeling like a… — Geneen Roth Copy Share
“People often mistake tenderheartedness for indulgence, as if being kind to themselves leads to lethargy—sitting around the house all day eating bonbons and wearing… — Geneen Roth Copy Share
If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you end the… — Geneen Roth Copy Share
“Pay careful attention to the bodily sensations that you recognize as hunger. When you feel yourself starting to get hungry, sit down for a… — Geneen Roth Copy Share
The purpose of healing is to live while you are alive instead of dying while you are alive. Healing is about being broken and… — Geneen Roth Copy Share
“But replacing hunger for divine connection with Double Stuf Oreos is like giving a glass of sand to a person dying of thirst. It… — Geneen Roth Copy Share
“When you are not hungry and decide to eat, choose a food that you ate that day when you were hungry. Be aware of:… — Geneen Roth Copy Share
