It's important to focus on the good in life and appreciate it. — Geneen Roth Appreciate Copy Share Image
Separate the desire to be thin from the desire to be cherished. — Geneen Roth Desire 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
What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now. — Geneen Roth Attention 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 Feelings Copy Share Image
You already have everything you need to be content. Your real work is to do whatever it takes to realize that. — Geneen Roth Happiness 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
We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable. — Geneen Roth Change 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 Decided Copy Share Image
For every diet there's an equal and opposite binge (bulimia which is binging and purging is another way of depriving yourself). — Geneen Roth Another way Copy Share Image
It matters whether you see yourself as someone who is capable of effecting change or whether you see yourself as someone whose… — Geneen Roth Bits 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
When you believe in yourself more than you believe in food, you will stop using food as if it were your only… — Geneen Roth Belief 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 Caught 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… — Geneen Roth Ends Copy Share Image
You can't be stuck if you're not trying to get anywhere. Which, to me, means that when you stop fighting with the… — Geneen Roth Action 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,… — Geneen Roth Attention 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
“But right here, right now, in the center of this wound—I’ve been abandoned and betrayed by who and what really matters and… — Geneen Roth Faith Copy Share Image
“At some point, it's time to stop fighting with death, my thighs and the way things are. And to realize that emotional… — Geneen Roth Death 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 Body image 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 About yourself Copy Share Image
“When you believe without knowing you believe that you are damaged at your core, you also believe that you need to hide… — Geneen Roth Body image Copy Share Image
The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment. — Geneen Roth Benefits 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 Bad day 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 Animal 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
It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a… — Geneen Roth Defining ourselves Copy Share Image
It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in… — Geneen Roth Avoiding 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… — Geneen Roth Self Copy Share Image
“The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment. But the present… — Geneen Roth Fantasy 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… — Geneen Roth Eating 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… — Geneen Roth Alive Copy Share Image
Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave… — Geneen Roth Capacity 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
You can rescue yourself. No matter how you feel, no matter what you believe about your worth or your capacity to love… — Geneen Roth Believe Copy Share Image
“You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. It's possible to treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning… — Geneen Roth Failure Copy Share Image
Ask: is what I'm doing and thinking right now bringing me closer to myself or farther away? Opening my heart or closing… — Geneen Roth Asks 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… — Geneen Roth Eating disorders Copy Share Image
