Separate the desire to be thin from the desire to be cherished. — Geneen Roth Desire 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
Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened. — Geneen Roth Loss 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 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 Copy Share Image
You will never stop wanting more until you allow yourself to have what you already have. To take it in. Savor it.… — Geneen Roth Good times Copy Share Image
Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are… — Geneen Roth Awareness 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… — Geneen Roth Attention 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… — Geneen Roth 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
It's the nature of hearts to break. It's in their job description. When a heart is doing what it's supposed to be… — Geneen Roth 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 Copy Share Image
Diets are based on the unspoken fear that you are a madwoman, a food terrorist, a lunatic…The promise of a diet is… — Geneen Roth Body Copy Share Image
Women look at their bodies, and they're never thin enough. The financial advisors that I've talked to say they ask their clients,… — Geneen Roth 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
“When you are not hungry and decide to eat, choose a food that you ate that day when you were hungry. Be… — Geneen Roth Eating Copy Share Image
Weight loss does not make people happy. Or peaceful. Being thin does not address the emptiness that has no shape or weight… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you wont discover this until you are willing… — Geneen Roth Failure Copy Share Image
The truth is that it’s not about the weight. It’s never been about the weight. When a pill is discovered that allows… — Geneen Roth Feelings 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 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
“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
“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
“Staying requires being curious about who you actually are when you don't take yourself to be a collection of memories.When you don't… — 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… — Geneen Roth Food 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
“...compulsive eating is basically a refusal to be fully alive. No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters… — Geneen Roth Body image Copy Share Image
“We keep wanting more because we don't let ourselves have what we already have” — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
How you eat is how you live. How you do anything is how you do everything. — Geneen Roth Food Copy Share Image
Imagine treating yourself with the kindness that you show people you love. — Geneen Roth 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
If LOVE could talk to you about your relationship with food, what would it say? — 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
