Geneen Roth Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• 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.

  Geneen Roth

  Dog, Sweet, Children

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Nov 20, 2012

• 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

• All any feeling wants is to be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its story. It wants to dissolve like a thousand writhing snakes that with a flick of kindness become harmless strands of rope.

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  Kindness, Compassion, Snakes

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Aug 07, 2010

• If you treat your feelings with as much love as you treat your dog or your cat or your child you'll feel as if you were living in heaven.

  Geneen Roth

  Dog, Monday, Morning

  Twitter post from Nov 20, 2012

• Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, and state. Bigger than. Vaster than. That there is no reason to use drugs because anything a drug could do would pale in comparison to knowing who you are.

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  Fear, Knowing Who You Are, Drug

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Geneen Roth

  Shopping, Giving, Feelings

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

• 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.

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  Feelings, Want, Ifs

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

• 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.

  Geneen Roth

  People, Feelings, Pills

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

• 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.

  Geneen Roth

  Being Yourself, Believe, Space

• Our relationship with food - how, when, what and why we eat - is a direct expression of our underlying feelings, thoughts and beliefs about ourselves. It has to do with stances we take that get reflected not only in our relationship with food, but in all our relationships. It just so happens that the relationship with food causes enough conflict, grief, shame and hurt that we’re willing to look at it.

  Geneen Roth

  Hurt, Grief, Food

  "Geneen Roth on Dr. Oz, Food and Body Image". Interview with Jean Fain, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2012.

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