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
“Wake up to the riot of life around you every second. The singer Pearl Bailey said, “People see God every day; they… — Geneen Roth Every day Copy Share Image
“. . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere… — Geneen Roth Different Copy Share Image
“People get old, get sick and die. Or they die suddenly. Or their deaths drag on forever. My friend Tory is dying… — Geneen Roth Breast cancer Copy Share Image
Chocolate, I am sure, is the concrete manifestation of love. — Geneen Roth Chocolate Copy Share Image
If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend. — Geneen Roth Broken Copy Share Image
Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life. Even… — Geneen Roth Arthritis 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 Concern Copy Share Image
Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes. — Geneen Roth Bits Copy Share Image
We are using the food as a doorway to understanding the rest of our lives. — Geneen Roth Doorways 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 Built Copy Share Image
There have been many articles about the top regrets that people have when they're dying. They are always, "I missed the ordinary… — Geneen Roth Articles Copy Share Image
Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and… — Geneen Roth Believe Copy Share Image
Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, and state.… — Geneen Roth Bigger 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 Belief Copy Share Image
“We keep wanting more because we don't let ourselves have what we already have” — Geneen Roth 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
You are lovable, you are loving; your choices about food will reflect that, if you give yourself a chance. — Geneen Roth Chance Copy Share Image
Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened. — Geneen Roth Loss Copy Share Image
Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act… — Geneen Roth Change Copy Share Image
We need to build our friendships on truth and wholeness. We need friends who can be with us in our loneliness, not… — Geneen Roth Being real Copy Share Image
“Once you discover freedom, you want to capture it, never let it go.” — Geneen Roth Freedom 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 Allowing Copy Share Image
