If you want to eat when you're not hungry, you're hungry for something else. — Geneen Roth Food Copy Share Image
Come back to yourself. Return to the voice of your body. Trust that much. — Geneen Roth Body Copy Share Image
If LOVE could talk to you about your relationship with food, what would it say? — Geneen Roth Food Copy Share Image
Being hungry is like being in love: if you don't know, you're probably not, — Geneen Roth Being in love Copy Share Image
Imagine treating yourself with the kindness that you show people you love. — Geneen Roth Imagine Copy Share Image
Hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. — Geneen Roth Different Copy Share Image
We are using the food as a doorway to understanding the rest of our lives. — Geneen Roth Doorway Copy Share Image
Healing is about being awake. Being broken and whole at the same time. — Geneen Roth Awake 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
You are not your past, not your habits, not your compulsions. When you get to know who you are, anything becomes possible. — Geneen Roth Compulsion Copy Share Image
Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your… — Geneen Roth Awake 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 Love Copy Share Image
When you don't want to be where you are, you create suffering for yourself. Change happens through acceptance, kindness and relaxation--not resistance,… — Geneen Roth Acceptance 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 Comes and goes Copy Share Image
Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on. — Geneen Roth Awareness Copy Share Image
You don't need a scale to tell you whether you're allowed to like yourself today. You are. You belong here. No matter… — Geneen Roth Deserve 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 Alive 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
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 Allowing 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
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 Body Copy Share Image
The real work of this life is not what we do every day from 9-5...The real work is to be passionate, be… — Geneen Roth Cry 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… — Geneen Roth Indulgence 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 Ability Copy Share Image
The big horrible thing isn't the plane crash or the earthquake or the diagnosis. When those things occur, we act, we know… — Geneen Roth Bigs 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 Eating Copy Share Image
What is pronounced these days is staying on the Internet for hours. It's really about distraction. We are living in such an… — Geneen Roth Culture 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
“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
Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity, enough tenderness… — Geneen Roth Awareness Copy Share Image
Chocolate, I am sure, is the concrete manifestation of love. — Geneen Roth Chocolate Copy Share Image
Your relationship to food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom. — Geneen Roth Doorways Copy Share Image
We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel. — Geneen Roth Afraid Copy Share Image
Just because we form an opinion about ourselves, or anyone else, doesn't mean it is true. — Geneen Roth Form Copy Share Image
Its not so much that we believe what we see, but that we see what we believe — Geneen Roth Believe Copy Share Image
The way we do anything is the way we do everything. The way we eat is the way we live. — Geneen Roth Food Copy Share Image