128 Quotes by Geneen Roth

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

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.

You can be aware of your past without being it.

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

Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.

What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.

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

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.

We are strong where we were broken.