Geneen Roth Quotes About Eating

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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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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  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Apr 08, 2012

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• Ask yourself if you are in this for the long run-if it's only your weight you want to change or if you are willing to use your eating patterns as a portal to the inner universe. And if the answer is the latter, then there is no end to what you can learn, be, understand, become.

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  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Oct 06, 2012

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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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  Geneen Roth (2010). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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