If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
If you treat your feelings with as much love as you treat your dog or your cat or your child you'll feel… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend. — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
If there are any cages in this marriage, it is I who have built them. And I who hold the key to… — 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
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
If LOVE could talk to you about your relationship with food, what would it say? — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
If you decided to reteach yourself your own loveliness today, what would you do? How would you speak to yourself? Can you… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
There's a basic feeling of lack that we want to distract ourselves from. We want to fix it by looking outside ourselves,… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Change, if it is to be long lasting, must occur on the unseen levels first — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
People come and go, pain comes and goes. But so does joy. And if our hearts are closed because we don't want… — 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
No matter where you go, no matter how many gifts you give and receive this holiday season, unless you are actually present,… — 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
Being hungry is like being in love: if you don't know, you're probably not, — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
