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We eat the way we live.

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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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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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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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Just because we form an opinion about ourselves, or anyone else, doesn't mean it is true.
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If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always.
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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?
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Its not so much that we believe what we see, but that we see what we believe
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We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable.
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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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Your relationship to food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom.
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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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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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Hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are.
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How you eat is how you live. How you do anything is how you do everything.
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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 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.
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You already have everything you need to be content. Your real work is to do whatever it takes to realize that.
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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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