Geneen Roth
Ask yourself if you are in this for the long run-if it's only your weight you want to change or if you are willing to use your eating patterns as a portal to the inner universe. And if the answer is the latter, then there is no end to what you can learn, be, understand, become.Collection: Running
If you decided to reteach yourself your own loveliness today, what would you do? How would you speak to yourself? Can you allow yourself that much?Collection: Today
It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.Collection: Numbers
Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.Collection: Real
And if you worry that not finishing the food on your plate is a slap in the face of all the hungry people everywhere, you are not living in reality. The truth is that you either throw the food out or you throw it in, but either way it turns to waste. World hunger will not be solved by finishing the garlic mashed potatoes on your plate.Collection: Reality
My closet was full, yet I was always focused on the sweater I didn't have, or on the next pair of boots. I wasn't allowing myself to take in what I had. I could never experience what "enough" was.Collection: Sweaters
Come back to yourself. Return to the voice of your body. Trust that much.Collection: Voice
There's a basic feeling of lack that we want to distract ourselves from. We want to fix it by looking outside ourselves, as if it is going to fill us up.Collection: Feelings
I believe in love. And beauty. I believe that every single person has something they find beautiful and that they truly love. The smell of their child's hair, the silence of a forest, their lover's crooked grin. Their country, their religion, their family. And I believe that if you follow this love all the way to its end, if you start with the thing you find most beautiful and trace it's perfume back to its essence, you will perceive an intangible presence, a swath of stillness that allows the thing you love to be visible like the openness of the sky reveals the presence of the moon.Collection: Beautiful
Ask: is what I'm doing and thinking right now bringing me closer to myself or farther away? Opening my heart or closing it? You have a choice.Collection: Monday
Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity, enough tenderness that the lies and old decisions upon which the compulsion is based become apparent and fall away. When you no longer believe that eating will save your life when you feel exhausted or overwhelmed or lonely, you will stop. When you believe in yourself more than you believe in food, you will stop using food as if it were your only chance at not falling apart. When the shape of your body no longer matches the shape of your beliefs, the weight disappears.Collection: Lonely
No matter where you go, no matter how many gifts you give and receive this holiday season, unless you are actually present, it all flies by as if in a dream. Satisfaction in anything--a meal, an interaction, a gift, a sunset--depends on your willingness to take it in. Breathe. Feel your arms and your legs. You are allowed to love every little thing about yourself and your life. You are allowed to take up space and be all that you are. Really you are.Collection: Dream
Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on.Collection: Shame
No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation. And when we can't stand it any longer, we binge.Collection: Live Life
Healing is about being awake. Being broken and whole at the same time.Collection: Healing
If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always.Collection: Kindness
Compulsive eating is only the symptom; believing that you are not worth your own love is the problem. Go for the love. You will never be sorry.Collection: Sorry
Imagine treating yourself with the kindness that you show people you love.Collection: Monday
The way we do anything is the way we do everything. The way we eat is the way we live.Collection: Way
People come and go, pain comes and goes. But so does joy. And if our hearts are closed because we don't want to suffer, they won't be open enough to recognize the joy as it flies by.Collection: Pain
You already have everything you need to be content. Your real work is to do whatever it takes to realize that.Collection: Monday
The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.Collection: Spiritual
Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can't have it.Collection: Inspiring
Chocolate, I am sure, is the concrete manifestation of love.Collection: Chocolate
Staying requires being curious about who you actually are when you don't take yourself to be a collection of memories.When you don't infer your existence from replaying what happened to you, when you don't take yourself to be the girl your mother/father/brother/teacher/lover didn't see or adore. When you sense yourself directly, immediately, right now, without preconception, who are you?Collection: Girl
After initial needs are metenough food, shelter, comfortthere is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe.Collection: Money
You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. Treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today.Collection: Kindness
We eat the way we live.Collection: Way
Be fully present for five minutes every day.Collection: Minutes
We are strong where we were broken.Collection: Strong
The process is the goal.Collection: Goal
You can be aware of your past without being it.Collection: Past
We are using the food as a doorway to understanding the rest of our lives.Collection: Understanding
It's important to focus on the good in life and appreciate it.Collection: Appreciate
There have been many articles about the top regrets that people have when they're dying. They are always, "I missed the ordinary moments." We miss those ordinary moments, and yet, that's what we're trying to distract ourselves from at the same time.Collection: Regret
We start eating, watch television, surf the Internet, or go shopping and buy something. That gives us a rush of feeling, some adrenaline and excitement.Collection: Shopping
I feel like it's been important for me to use my own personal experiences with food and money to help people to not feel ashamed. I felt so much shame about my own experiences.Collection: People
We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable.Collection: Mind
Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.Collection: Meditation
We need to build our friendships on truth and wholeness. We need friends who can be with us in our loneliness, not people who will cheer us up so that we don’t feel it. We need friends who get furious with us when we are not being real or true to ourselves, not when we don’t do what they want us to do.Collection: Cheer
Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake.Collection: Meditation
If there are any cages in this marriage, it is I who have built them. And I who hold the key to their locks.Collection: Keys
I live between fearing doom and wishing for it.Collection: Wish
Change, if it is to be long lasting, must occur on the unseen levels firstCollection: Long
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 yourself directly.Collection: Being Yourself
Being exaltingly thin was, of course, the foundation for the visibility, the man, the adornments of this life-to-be; it was the prerequisite that made the rest of the dream possible. And since no matter how thin I got, I was frightened that I could wake up tomorrow and be fat again, the rest of the dream was forever ten or twenty pounds away.Collection: Dream
If LOVE could talk to you about your relationship with food, what would it say?Collection: Our Relationship
The purpose of healing is to live while you are alive instead of dying while you are alive. Healing is about being broken and whole at the same time.Collection: Healing
For every diet there's an equal and opposite binge (bulimia which is binging and purging is another way of depriving yourself).Collection: Opposites