"You will stop turning to food when you……" — Geneen Roth
"You will stop turning to food when you start understanding in your body, not just your mind, that there is something better...Truth, not force, does the work of ending compulsive eating."
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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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