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You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. Treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today.

Geneen Roth

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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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If you want to eat when you're not hungry, you're hungry for something else.
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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.
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When you don't want to be where you are, you create suffering for yourself. Change happens through acceptance, kindness and relaxation--not resistance, not warfare, not fights.
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I live between fearing doom and wishing for it.
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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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Treat yourself as if you already are enough. Walk as if you are enough. Eat as if you are enough. See, look, listen as if you are enough. Because it's true.
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The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment.
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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.
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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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Healing is about being awake. Being broken and whole at the same time.
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Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity.
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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.
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Change, if it is to be long lasting, must occur on the unseen levels first
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Just because we form an opinion about ourselves, or anyone else, doesn't mean it is true.
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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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What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.
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You can't be stuck if you're not trying to get anywhere. Which, to me, means that when you stop fighting with the way things are, magic happens. You relax, open, and any action you take comes from alignment with what's true.
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