Geneen Roth Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• 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.

  Geneen Roth

  Mirrors, Feelings, Alive

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

• When we give up dieting, we take back something we were often too young to know we had given away: our own voice. Our ability to make decisions about what to eat and when. Our belief in ourselves. Our right to decide what goes into our mouths. Unlike the diets that appear monthly in magazines or the thermal pants that sweat off pounds, unlike a lover or a friend or a car, your body is reliable. It doesn't go away, get lost, stolen. If you will listen, it will speak.

  Geneen Roth

  Giving Up, Sweat, Voice

• 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.

  Geneen Roth

  Lonely, Lying, Fall

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

• Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life. Even with aching joints, it's not about food. Even with arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure. It's about your desire to flatten your life. It's about the fact that you've given up without saying so. It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way - and you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it.

  Geneen Roth

  Health, Blood, Desire

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Geneen Roth

  Believe, Fall, Simple

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

• 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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