Geneen Roth Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on.

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  Shame, Awareness, Deprivation

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always.

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  Kindness, Bad Day, Trying

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Sep 02, 2011

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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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• The way we do anything is the way we do everything. The way we eat is the way we live.

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  Way

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• Imagine treating yourself with the kindness that you show people you love.

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  Monday, Morning, Kindness

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• 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.

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  Live Life, Anorexia, Soul

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Dream, Holiday, Sunset

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Dec 10, 2012

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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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• 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

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