Broken Quote by Geneen Roth

“If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend.” quote by Geneen Roth — Download Open image

“If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend.”

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For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe…

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Most of our suffering comes from resisting what is already here, particularly our feelings. All any feeling wants is to be welcomed, touched, allowed.…

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The relentless attempts to be thin take you further and further away from what could actually end your suffering: getting back in touch with…

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I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to feel what…

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After initial needs are metenough food, shelter, comfortthere is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe.

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“When you ignore your belly, you become homeless. You spend your life trying to erase your own existence. Apologizing for yourself. Feeling like a ghost. Eating to take up space, eating to give yourself the feeling that you have weight here, you belong here, you are allowed to be yourself -- but never quite believing it because you don't sense…

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“People often mistake tenderheartedness for indulgence, as if being kind to themselves leads to lethargy—sitting around the house all day eating bonbons and wearing muumuus and pink rollers. This is simply not true. I often hear a variation on this statement: “If I’m not intolerant of my shortcomings, how can I ever expect to change them?” And the answer is,…

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If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you end the…

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“Pay careful attention to the bodily sensations that you recognize as hunger. When you feel yourself starting to get hungry, sit down for a few minutes (and if you can’t sit down, stand still). Where in your body do you experience hunger? In your throat? Your chest? Your stomach? Your legs? How is this sensation different from the sensation, let’s…

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The purpose of healing is to live while you are alive instead of dying while you are alive. Healing is about being broken and…

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“But replacing hunger for divine connection with Double Stuf Oreos is like giving a glass of sand to a person dying of thirst. It…

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