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“I live between fearing doom and wishing for it.”

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Book:Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

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Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

This book is a profound examination of the intersection of women's lives, their eating behaviors, and their spiritual journeys. It investigates how food can be a manifestation of deeper emotional and spiritual issues, and provides a guide to understanding and healing these connections. more

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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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“Bingeing is such an emotionally frenetic activity that no other concerns can exist in the same space. It is a hell that people who are food-sensitive are familiar with; and, because it is known, it is therefore not so terrifying as some of the problems that are outside our control. Problems like divorce, illness, death.”

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“The relentless attempts to be thin take you further and further away from what could actually end your suffering: getting back in touch with who you really are. Your true nature. Your essence.”

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“Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on.”

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“To discover what you really believe, pay attention to the way you act -- and to what you do when things don't go the way you think they should. Pay attention to what you value. Pay attention to how and on what you spend your time. Your money. And pay attention to the way you eat.”

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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.”

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“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.”

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“The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.”

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“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.”

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

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“It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.”

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