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
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
The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment. — Geneen Roth 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 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 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 think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend. — Geneen Roth 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
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
No matter how developed you are in any other area of your life, no matter what you say you believe, no matter… — Geneen Roth 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 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
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
Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, and state.… — Geneen Roth 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 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
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
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
“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
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
Ask yourself if you are in this for the long run-if it's only your weight you want to change or if you… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
