Geneen Roth Quotes

You can be aware of your past without being it.

We are using the food as a doorway to understanding the rest of our lives.

The purpose of healing is to live while you are alive instead of dying while you are alive. Healing is about being broken and whole at the same time.

The process is the goal.

Be fully present for five minutes every day.

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

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.

Hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are.

If LOVE could talk to you about your relationship with food, what would it say?

It's important to focus on the good in life and appreciate it.

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.

We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable.

I feel like it's been important for me to use my own personal experiences with food and money to help people to not feel ashamed. I felt so much shame about my own experiences.

How you eat is how you live.

After initial needs are met—enough food, shelter, comfort—there is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe.

You will never stop wanting more until you allow yourself to have what you already have. To take it in. Savor it. Now is a good time to do that . . .

How you eat is how you live. How you do anything is how you do everything.

Just because we live in an insane culture doesn't mean we have to be insane too.

Take time to thank your body.

Separate the desire to be thin from the desire to be cherished.

We're always looking for the Big Love, the Big High, the next Big Thing to happen. We miss what's in front of us.

If there are any cages in this marriage, it is I who have built them. And I who hold the key to their locks.

Just because we form an opinion about ourselves, or anyone else, doesn't mean it is true.

I live between fearing doom and wishing for it.

It's the nature of hearts to break. It's in their job description. When a heart is doing what it's supposed to be doing, it holds nothing back. And sometimes it gets broken.

Change, if it is to be long lasting, must occur on the unseen levels first

Its not so much that we believe what we see, but that we see what we believe

We eat the way we live.

We are strong where we were broken.

Once you discover freedom, you want to capture it, never let it go.

But replacing hunger for divine connection with Double Stuf Oreos is like giving a glass of sand to a person dying of thirst. It creates more thirst, more panic.

Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds--our stories of loneliness, rejection, grief--that we don't realize they are in the past. They can't hurt us anymore.