Geneen Roth Quotes

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• Treat yourself as if you already are enough. Walk as if you are enough. Eat as if you are enough. See, look, listen as if you are enough. Because it's true.

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  Looks, Enough, Treats

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Jul 16, 2012

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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 we will end up being kind. If we shame ourselves, we believe we end up loving ourselves. It has never been true, not for a moment, that shame leads to love. Only love leads to love.

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  Love, Inspirational, Change

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Apr 24, 2014

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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. It wants attention. It wants kindness. If you treated your feelings with as much love as you treated your dog or your cat or your child, you'd feel as if you were living in heaven every day of your sweet life.

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  Dog, Sweet, Children

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Nov 20, 2012

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• If you want to eat when you're not hungry, you're hungry for something else.

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  Want, Hungry, Ifs

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• Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.

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  Loss, Protecting Ourselves, Happened

  Twitter post from Jun 25, 2012

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• Weight loss does not make people happy. Or peaceful. Being thin does not address the emptiness that has no shape or weight or name. Even a wildly successful diet is a colossal failure because inside the new body is the same sinking heart.

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  Heart, Successful, Loss

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• What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.

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  Motivational, Love Yourself, Self Love

  Twitter post from Jun 21, 2012

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• 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.

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  Lonely, Lying, Fall

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.

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  Want, Reason, Interest

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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 obsession because obsession and awareness cannot coexist.

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  Attention, Body, Want

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• The problem isn't that we have bodies; the problem is that we're not living in them.

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  Body, Problem

  Twitter post from Apr 16, 2010

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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 they feel when they're not.

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  Two, Healthy, Needs

  Geneen Roth (2010). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Being hungry is like being in love: if you don't know, you're probably not.

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  Being In Love, Hungry, Knows

  Geneen Roth (1989). “Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating”, Signet

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• The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings about love, fear, anger, meaning and transformation.

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  Mirrors, Feelings, Alive

  Geneen Roth (2010). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Awareness is learning to keep yourself company

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  Awareness, Pantomime, Company

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• We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel.

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  Way, Feels

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Mar 30, 2012

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• You don't need a scale to tell you whether you're allowed to like yourself today. You are. You belong here. No matter what you weigh, you deserve joy and happiness.

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  Monday, Morning, Joy

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• 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. And yes, it really is that simple.

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  Believe, Fall, Simple

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• Diets are based on the unspoken fear that you are a madwoman, a food terrorist, a lunatic…The promise of a diet is not only that you will have a different body; it is that in having a different body, you will have a different life. If you hate yourself enough, you will love yourself. If you torture yourself enough, you will become a peaceful, relaxed human being.

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  Hate, Love You, Peaceful

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Monday, Morning, Jobs

  Twitter post from Mar 30, 2010

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• Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity.

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  Practice, Meditation, Mind

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.

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  Wish, Awareness, Pantomime

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Country, Children

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from May 23, 2014

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• 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.

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  Monday, Morning, Heart

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• The truth is that it’s not about the weight. It’s never been about the weight. When a pill is discovered that allows people to eat whatever they want and not gain weight, the feelings and situations they turned to food to avoid will still be there and they will find other more inventive ways to numb themselves.

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  People, Feelings, Pills

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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