I feel like it's been important for me to use my own personal experiences with food and money to help people to… — Geneen Roth Ashamed Copy Share Image
We're always looking for the Big Love, the Big High, the next Big Thing to happen. We miss what's in front of… — Geneen Roth Big things Copy Share Image
The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable. — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Treat yourself as if you already are enough. Walk as if you are enough. Eat as if you are enough. See, look,… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes… — Geneen Roth Bad day Copy Share Image
Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves. — Geneen Roth Faces Copy Share Image
“Your body is the piece of the universe you've been given; as long as you have a pulse, it presents you with… — Geneen Roth Body image Copy Share Image
“I’d spent years saving for a future that was never coming to protect myself from a past that had already happened.” — Geneen Roth Time Copy Share Image
Ask yourself if you are in this for the long run-if it's only your weight you want to change or if you… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in… — Geneen Roth Anorexia 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 Bingeing Copy Share Image
My closet was full, yet I was always focused on the sweater I didn't have, or on the next pair of boots.… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are willing… — Geneen Roth Body image Copy Share Image
All any feeling wants is to be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its… — Geneen Roth Compassion Copy Share Image
“After you’ve looked at normal women’s bodies, look at yourself in the mirror. Stand there for at least three minutes, once a… — Geneen Roth Telling the truth Copy Share Image
When you ignore your belly, you become homeless. You spend your life trying to erase your own existence. Apologizing for yourself. Feeling… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“The obsession will end when you love yourself enough to stop hurting yourself. Who doesn't want to take care of what they… — Geneen Roth Hurting yourself 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
To discover what you really believe, pay attention to the way you act -- and to what you do when things don't… — Geneen Roth Attention 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 Faces Copy Share Image
You cannot spend your life wanting to be someone else, snipping off pieces of yourself you don't like, and suddenly expect, upon… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image