128 Quotes by 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.

We eat the way we live.

Take yourself in. Ask the questions no one ever asked you. Keep going until you know the answer and you know who’s asking. Until you realize- it’s not far away- that the essence of you, like the sky, was always here. You just happened to get distracted by the local weather for a few decades.

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

I’d spent years saving for a future that was never coming to protect myself from a past that had already happened.

Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds – our stories of loneliness, rejection, grief – that we don’t realize they are in the past. They can’t hurt us anymore.

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.

Every good enough mother teaches her child that no matter how bad it seems- no matter how many rejections or scraped knees or broken bones there are- it is going to be okay. Maybe not the way we wanted or hoped it would be, but still okay. A good parent returns a child to the place where she can trust that although she might be bitter or hateful for a moment, it’s not the end of the world. There is love here. There is light and quiet here. There is peace.

The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment.