The problem isn't that we have bodies; the problem is that we're not living in them. — Geneen Roth Body 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 Living in the present 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
Separate the desire to be thin from the desire to be cherished. — Geneen Roth Desire 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
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
We start eating, watch television, surf the Internet, or go shopping and buy something. That gives us a rush of feeling, some… — Geneen Roth Adrenaline 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
I think we all have a hunger that's hard to name. A lot of people who come to my retreats have never… — Geneen Roth Answers 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
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
To discover what you really believe, pay attention to the way you act -- and to what you do when things don't… — Geneen Roth Attention Copy Share Image
How you eat is how you live. How you do anything is how you do everything. — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
If you want to eat when you're not hungry, you're hungry for something else. — Geneen Roth Hungry 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
“The obsession will end when you love yourself enough to stop hurting yourself. Who doesn't want to take care of what they… — Geneen Roth Hurting yourself 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
And if you worry that not finishing the food on your plate is a slap in the face of all the hungry… — Geneen Roth Faces 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 Way Copy Share Image
It's never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on… — Geneen Roth Coming home 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 Big things Copy Share Image
Just because we live in an insane culture doesn't mean we have to be insane too. — Geneen Roth Culture 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
