Geneen Roth

Geneen Roth

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Geneen Roth is a renowned author and speaker known for her work on self-love and emotional eating, particularly through her book 'Women, Food, and God.'

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Born
April 1, 1954
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"I believe in love. And beauty. I believe that every single person has something they find beautiful and that they truly love. The smell of their child's hair, the silence of a forest, their lover's crooked grin. Their country, their religion, their family. And I believe that if you follow this love all the way to its end, if you start with the thing you find most beautiful and trace it's perfume back to its essence, you will perceive an intangible presence, a swath of stillness that allows the thing you love to be visible like the openness of the sky reveals the presence of the moon."

Beautiful Country Children
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"Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, and state. Bigger than. Vaster than. That there is no reason to use drugs because anything a drug could do would pale in comparison to knowing who you are."

Fear Knowing Who You Are Drug
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"The way we do anything is the way we do everything. The way we eat is the way we live."

Way
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"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."

Monday Morning Believe
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"Healing is about being awake. Being broken and whole at the same time."

Healing Broken Awake
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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."

Monday Morning Joy
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". . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else . . . . Wanting life to be different from what it is. That's also called leaving without leaving. Dying before you die. It's as if there is a part of you that so rails against being shattered by love that you shatter yourself first."

Inspiring Journey Somewhere Else
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"Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes."

Real Effort Quick Fixes
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"You already have everything you need to be content. Your real work is to do whatever it takes to realize that."

Monday Morning Real
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"No matter how developed you are in any other area of your life, no matter what you say you believe, no matter how sophisticated or enlightened you think you are, how you eat tells all."

Believe Thinking Matter
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"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."

Mirrors Feelings Alive
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"And if you worry that not finishing the food on your plate is a slap in the face of all the hungry people everywhere, you are not living in reality. The truth is that you either throw the food out or you throw it in, but either way it turns to waste. World hunger will not be solved by finishing the garlic mashed potatoes on your plate."

Reality People Worry
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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."

Running Bad Day Long
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"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."

Love Chocolate Affair
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"It's never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale. We are unrepeatable beings of light and space and water who need these physical vehicles to get around. When we start defining ourselves by that which can be measured or weighed, something deep within us rebels. We don't want to EAT hot fudge sundaes as much as we want our lives to BE hot fudge sundaes. We want to come home to ourselves."

Inspiring Home Journey
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"It matters whether you see yourself as someone who is capable of effecting change or whether you see yourself as someone whose voice does not count. It matters whether you treat yourself with reverence or with carelessness. Every bit of work you do on yourself matters. Every time you choose love, it matters."

Voice Doe Matter
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"All any feeling wants is to be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its story. It wants to dissolve like a thousand writhing snakes that with a flick of kindness become harmless strands of rope."

Kindness Compassion Snakes
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"Come back to yourself. Return to the voice of your body. Trust that much."

Voice Body Return
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"The truth is that it’s not about the weight. It’s never been about the weight. When a pill is discovered that allows people to eat whatever they want and not gain weight, the feelings and situations they turned to food to avoid will still be there and they will find other more inventive ways to numb themselves."

People Feelings Pills
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