Explore Quotes by Geneen Roth

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

You can't be stuck if you're not trying to get anywhere. Which, to me, means that when you stop fighting with the way things are, magic happens. You relax, open, and any action you take comes from alignment with what's true.

No act of love is ever wasted.

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.

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

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

You can be aware of your past without being it.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

We need to build our friendships on truth and wholeness. We need friends who can be with us in our loneliness, not people who will cheer us up so that we don’t feel it. We need friends who get furious with us when we are not being real or true to ourselves, not when we don’t do what they want us to do.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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