"Bingeing is such an emotionally frenetic activity that……" — Geneen Roth
"Bingeing is such an emotionally frenetic activity that no other concerns can exist in the same space. It is a hell that people who are food-sensitive are familiar with; and, because it is known, it is therefore not so terrifying as some of the problems that are outside our control. Problems like divorce, illness, death."
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81 Quotes by Geneen Roth
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For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we…
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All any feeling wants is to be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and…
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Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity,…
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Compulsive eating is only the symptom; believing that you are not worth your own love is the problem. Go for…
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Staying requires being curious about who you actually are when you don't take yourself to be a collection of memories.When…
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Ask yourself if you are in this for the long run-if it's only your weight you want to change or…
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If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid.…
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The real work of this life is not what we do every day from 9-5...The real work is to be…
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Chocolate ... is not something you can take or leave, something you like only moderately. You dont like chocolate. You…
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. . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to…
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Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains…
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It's never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is…
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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