Quote

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.

Geneen Roth

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Geneen Roth
Need
Deserve
Needs
Joy
Like
Morning
Weigh
Happiness
Monday
Whether
Scale
Tell
Scales
Today
Belong
Matter
Allowed

More quotes by Geneen Roth

Image
For every diet there's an equal and opposite binge (bulimia which is binging and purging is another way of depriving yourself).
Geneen Roth
Image
You can rescue yourself. No matter how you feel, no matter what you believe about your worth or your capacity to love and be loved, you can change.
Geneen Roth
Image
If you want to eat when you're not hungry, you're hungry for something else.
Geneen Roth
Image
We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel.
Geneen Roth
Image
Come back to yourself. Return to the voice of your body. Trust that much.
Geneen Roth
Image
Awareness is a way you keep yourself company. When you are aware you are being compulsive, you are no longer locked in the behavior. You have a choice to stop. That choice--and therefore awareness itself--is freedom.
Geneen Roth
Image
Awareness is learning to keep yourself company
Geneen Roth
Image
It's important to focus on the good in life and appreciate it.
Geneen Roth
Image
If you decided to reteach yourself your own loveliness today, what would you do? How would you speak to yourself? Can you allow yourself that much?
Geneen Roth
Image
You already have everything you need to be content. Your real work is to do whatever it takes to realize that.
Geneen Roth
Image
When you believe in yourself more than you believe in food, you will stop using food as if it were your only chance at not falling apart. When the shape of your body no longer matches the shape of your beliefs, the weight disappears. And yes, it really is that simple.
Geneen Roth
Image
We're always looking for the Big Love, the Big High, the next Big Thing to happen. We miss what's in front of us.
Geneen Roth
Image
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.
Geneen Roth
Image
Chocolate ... is not something you can take or leave, something you like only moderately. You dont like chocolate. You dont even love chocolate. Chocolate is something you have an affair with.
Geneen Roth
Image
You will never stop wanting more until you allow yourself to have what you already have. To take it in. Savor it. Now is a good time to do that . . .
Geneen Roth
Image
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.
Geneen Roth
Image
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.
Geneen Roth
Image
Change, if it is to be long lasting, must occur on the unseen levels first
Geneen Roth
Image
We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable.
Geneen Roth
Image
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.
Geneen Roth