The problem isn’t that we have bodies; the problem is that we’re not living in them. — Geneen Roth

Take time to thank your body. — Geneen Roth

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

Your body is the piece of the Universe youve been given. — Geneen Roth

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. — Geneen Roth

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. — Geneen Roth

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. — Geneen Roth

Being hungry is like being in love: if you don’t know, you’re probably not. — Geneen Roth

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. — Geneen Roth

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

No act of love is ever wasted. — Geneen Roth

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

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. — Geneen Roth

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

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. — Geneen Roth

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. — Geneen Roth

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

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

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. — Geneen Roth

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. — Geneen Roth

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. — Geneen Roth

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

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. — Geneen Roth

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. — Geneen Roth

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

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

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

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

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. — Geneen Roth

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

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

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

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. — Geneen Roth

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

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

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. — Geneen Roth

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

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. — Geneen Roth

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