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“You can be aware of your past without being it.”

Quote by Geneen Roth

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Geneen Roth is a renowned author known for her books on eating, eating disorders, and self-acceptance. more

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

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

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Book:Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating

Source: Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating

“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.”

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“For every diet there's an equal and opposite binge (bulimia which is binging and purging is another way of depriving yourself).”

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“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.”

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Book:When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy

Source: When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy

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

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

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“In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices we will ever make, and it determines the course of our lives from that moment forward. The choice is this: Will we interpret this loss as so unjust, unfair, and devastating that we feel punished, angry, forever and fatally wounded-- or, as our heart, torn apart, bleeds its anguish of sheer, wordless grief, will we somehow feel this loss as an opportunity to become more tender, more open, more passionately alive, more grateful for what remains?”

“Some of us have a hard time believing that we are actually able to face our own pain. We have convinced ourselves that our pain is too deep, too frightening, something to avoid at all costs. Yet if we finally allow ourselves to feel the depth of that sadness and gently let it break our hearts, we may come to feel a great freedom, a genuine sense of release and peace, because we have finally stopped running away from ourselves and from the pain that lives within us.”

Source: Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood

“When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we are on war time, mobilized for battle. Yes, we are strong and capable people, we can work without stopping, faster and faster, electric lights making artificial day so the whole machine can labor without ceasing. But remember: No living thing lives like this. There are greater rhythms, seasons and hormonal cycles and sunsets and moonrises and great movements of seas and stars. We are part of the creation story, subject to all its laws and rhythms.”