Geneen Roth Quotes

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.

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.

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

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.

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

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

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.

You will stop turning to food when you start understanding in your body, not just your mind, that there is something better...Truth, not force, does the work of ending compulsive eating.

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.

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

You can rescue yourself. No matter how you feel, no matter what you believe about your worth or your capacity to love and be loved, you can change.

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.

Healing is about being awake. Being broken and whole at the same time.

No matter how developed you are in any other area of your life, no matter what you say you believe, no matter how sophisticated or enlightened you think you are, how you eat tells all.

You already have everything you need to be content. Your real work is to do whatever it takes to realize that.

Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.

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.

Your relationship to food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom.

Chocolate ... is not something you can take or leave, something you like only moderately. You dont like chocolate. You dont even love chocolate. Chocolate is something you have an affair with.

For every diet there's an equal and opposite binge (bulimia which is binging and purging is another way of depriving yourself).

Come back to yourself. Return to the voice of your body. Trust that much.

The relentless attempts to be thin take you further and further away from what could actually end your suffering: getting back in touch with who you really are. Your true nature. Your essence.

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.

When you don't want to be where you are, you create suffering for yourself. Change happens through acceptance, kindness and relaxation--not resistance, not warfare, not fights.

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?

Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake.

You are not your past, not your habits, not your compulsions. When you get to know who you are, anything becomes possible.

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.

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.

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.

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

No act of love is ever wasted.

Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves.

Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.

The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment.

You are lovable, you are loving; your choices about food will reflect that, if you give yourself a chance.

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

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

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.

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

It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.

You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. Treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today.

Chocolate, I am sure, is the concrete manifestation of love.

Your body is the piece of the Universe youve been given.