If you want to eat when you're not hungry, you're hungry for something else. — Geneen Roth Food Copy Share Image
Change, if it is to be long lasting, must occur on the unseen levels first — Geneen Roth Change Copy Share Image
The problem isn't that we have bodies; the problem is that we're not living in them. — Geneen Roth 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 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 Copy Share Image
You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. Treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today. — Geneen Roth Failure 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
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 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
If there are any cages in this marriage, it is I who have built them. And I who hold the key to… — Geneen Roth 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 Copy Share Image
Awareness is a way you keep yourself company. When you are aware you are being compulsive, you are no longer locked in… — Geneen Roth Awareness Copy Share Image
Being exaltingly thin was, of course, the foundation for the visibility, the man, the adornments of this life-to-be; it was the prerequisite… — Geneen Roth Adornment Copy Share Image
“. . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere… — Geneen Roth 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 Copy Share Image
“After you’ve looked at normal women’s bodies, look at yourself in the mirror. Stand there for at least three minutes, once a… — Geneen Roth Telling the truth Copy Share Image
All any feeling wants is to be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its… — Geneen Roth Compassion 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
You cannot spend your life wanting to be someone else, snipping off pieces of yourself you don't like, and suddenly expect, upon… — Geneen Roth 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
“Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, an state.… — Geneen Roth Fear 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 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 Copy Share Image
I believe in love. And beauty. I believe that every single person has something they find beautiful and that they truly love.… — Geneen Roth Beautiful 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
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
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
“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
Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your… — Geneen Roth 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
“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
“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
“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
I feel like it's been important for me to use my own personal experiences with food and money to help people to… — Geneen Roth Ashamed 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
If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes… — Geneen Roth Bad day Copy Share Image
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
Treat yourself as if you already are enough. Walk as if you are enough. Eat as if you are enough. See, look,… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable. — Geneen Roth 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
