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You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. Treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today.
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For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe we will end up being kind. If we shame ourselves, we believe we end up loving ourselves. It has never been true, not for a moment, that shame leads to love. Only love leads to love.
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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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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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Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, and state. Bigger than. Vaster than. That there is no reason to use drugs because anything a drug could do would pale in comparison to knowing who you are.
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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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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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If you want to eat when you're not hungry, you're hungry for something else.
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Women look at their bodies, and they're never thin enough. The financial advisors that I've talked to say they ask their clients, How much money do you need in order to feel secure? X amount. Then, as soon as the client got the amount, it would double automatically.
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Come back to yourself. Return to the voice of your body. Trust that much.
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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.
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And.. are you willing to go all the way? To understand that food is only a stand-in for love and possibility and spirit? Because if you aren't, you will get caught up in gaining and losing weight for the rest of your life. But if you are willing, then the portal to what you say you want is truly on your plate.
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I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to feel what they feel when they're not.
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