Geneen Roth quotes

Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened. (Geneen Roth)
Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can't have it.
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Be fully present for five minutes every day.
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Chocolate, I am sure, is the concrete manifestation of love.
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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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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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If you want to eat when you're not hungry, you're hungry for something else.
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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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What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.
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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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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 . . . (Geneen Roth)
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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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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We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel.
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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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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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The way we do anything is the way we do everything. The way we eat is the way we live.
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Imagine treating yourself with the kindness that you show people you love.
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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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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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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. (Geneen Roth)
You already have everything you need to be content. Your real work is to do whatever it takes to realize that.
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Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.
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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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The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.
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