For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh,… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
I believe in love. And beauty. I believe that every single person has something they find beautiful and that they truly love.… — 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
Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves. — 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
“If we think our job here on earth is to fix ourselves, we will keep looking for the broken places. If we… — 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
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
Its not so much that we believe what we see, but that we see what we believe — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
The problem isn't that we have bodies; the problem is that we're not living in them. — 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
If you want to eat when you're not hungry, you're hungry for something else. — Geneen Roth 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 Copy Share Image
Being hungry is like being in love: if you don't know, you're probably not, — 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
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
