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Women Food And God: An Unexpected Path To Almost Everything

No matter how sophisticated or wealthy or broke or enlightened you are, how you eat tells all. After three decades of studying, teaching and writing about our compulsions with food, bestselling author Geneen Roth adds a powerful new dimension to her wo

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“We gravitate toward labels because it's always a relief to be seen, to find ourselves in descriptions.”

— Geneen Roth, amazon.com

Tagged: Personality, Identity, MBTI, Zodiac, Astrology

“If you don't allow a feeling to begin, you also don't let it end.”

— Geneen Roth, amazon.com

Tagged: Mental Health, Feelings, emotions, Anxiety, Emotion vs. reason

“Minds are useful when we need to conceptualize, plan, theorize. But when we depend on them to guide our inner lives, we're lost.”

— Geneen Roth, amazon.com

Tagged: Mental Health, Feelings, emotions, minds, Brains

“Grief hurts, sadness hurts, but it's not the feelings that destroy us. It's what we tell ourselves about the feelings.”

— Geneen Roth, amazon.com

Tagged: Mental Health, Feelings, emotions, Pain, Grief

“You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved.”

— Geneen Roth, amazon.com

Tagged: Self-improvement, Quote of the Moment, Self love

“Eating what I wanted was not allowed. Wanting what I wanted was not allowed. I needed to sacrifice, atone, make up for being myself. For being fat.”

— Geneen Roth, amazon.com

Tagged: food, eating disorders

“The answer to ‘I have no idea how I am going to get through this’ is: you allow yourself to sob, to heave, to feel as if your heart has a boulder crashing through it.””

— Geneen Roth, amazon.com

Tagged: The way forward, Pain, Suffering, Mental Health, Recovery

“In an April 2007 UCLA study of the effectiveness of dieting, researchers found that one of the best predictors of weight gain was having lost weight on a diet at some point during the years before the study started.”

— Geneen Roth, amazon.com

Tagged: eating disorders, food, Diets

“The great thing about being Sisyphus is that you have your work cut out for you.”

— Geneen Roth, amazon.com

Tagged: Suffering, Pain, The way forward, eating disorders, humor

“When the suffering is fully allowed, it dissolves.”

— Geneen Roth, amazon.com

Tagged: Suffering, Pain, The way forward, eating disorders, Quote of the Moment

“Food is good and comfort is good. Except that when you are not hungry and want comfort, food is only a temporary palliative; why not address the discomfort directly?”

— Geneen Roth, amazon.com

Tagged: food, Mental Health, eating disorders

“Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds—our stories about loneliness, rejection, grief, worthlessness—that we don’t realize they are in the past. They can’t hurt us anymore. We are protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened. It’s possible to come back. To see…”

— Geneen Roth, amazon.com

Tagged: Pain, Grief, Stories, Perception, Worthlessness