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Geneen Roth

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first: 2018-01-01
most recent: 2018-01-01
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“That's the path. And so, whatever that is, and for women who are struggling or suffering with their relationship with food, that's the path. And for me, that was the path.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You mean besides your relationship with food? Because that's a big path. I feel like that's a really big path. And I feel like most women don't value that enough. I just don't feel like most women do. They think it's just a matter of willpower. And if I can just get it together, then everything's going to be okay. But it's the path that's right in front of them that is the clearest path. I mean, that's what I believe that's right in front of you.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I can tell you what is still taking me the longest to learn, which is unconditionally Loving myself, cherishing myself, welcoming myself. I think that's why I'm so good at talking about it, because it's been, you know, I've had a pretty intense inner critic. And I've gone through a lot of judgment and shame. And so I keep learning this over and over and over again. And so I think I'm still learning it.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I feel like I made some kind of contract before I came to Earth. I don't know if this is true or not, that I was going to go through a lot of stuff that wasn't really easy to go through And be able to transform it or somehow work with it so that I can teach, I could teach other people so I could be a spokesperson for change. And I could reach people from personal experience so that I could let people know that no matter what they've gone through, including losing all their money, They could come out being magnificent pretty much. And I really believe that. I believe that no matter what, and if you live in food hello, lose all your money. There's a way of working with it. No situation is unworkable.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Having children I decided not to have children because I felt like I couldn't give myself fully to my work and be a really good mother.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That people will take what I've said and what I've written, pass it on to their children, and be unspeakably kind to themselves, to nature.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When this is, I mean, we are talking like major heavy hitters here when I am teaching, when I'm writing, when I am in my heart.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In that moment, all of those beliefs are revealed in me choosing to eat that instead of believing that it's possible to show up. It's possible to feel the feelings. They're not going to kill me. Fear isn't going to kill us. Grief is not going to kill us. It might feel like it is at a certain time.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes. So in that moment, what I'm saying is feelings can't be felt. I'm never going to get to the truth of who I am. I might as well eat. This is the best this life has to offer me. That's what I'm talking about.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, I'm not saying that physiological reactions don't happen. But what I am saying is that where I feel like that has become the thing of, well, if I only stop eating sugar and if I stop eating this and if I stop doing that, my whole eating problem will clear up. Right. And that's what I'm saying, that what happens is we're addicted to the thought before we turn to food. You know those stories you were talking about?”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I feel like that whole thing with addiction has gotten and food has made people feel bad about what they eat, has put moral judgments on what they eat, has made them feel uptight. And has led to a lot of unnecessary shame.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right, and your heart feels open again. You know, I mean, I can get very crunched down. And then if I notice what's good, then I feel open again.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I find that for myself. I do that every day. I do it when I wake up. I do it three or four times during the day. Do it before I go to sleep. And the second I do that, my whole energy shifts. There's an energy pressure. That's what I found. Yes.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because the brain has a chance to watch all the neuroscientists tell us that the bad is like Velcro and the good is like Teflon. And unless you actually focus on the good consistently, intensely, frequently, your brain can't lay down new loops. But anyway, that's just a fancy way of saying, stop many times a day and look at what's good.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's right, exactly. And so you're establishing what I call a ground of goodness five times a day. You just realize there are so many more things going right that are going wrong.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, taking the goodness all around. We miss so much goodness by just walking past it, by not taking time every single day to see the magnificence of what's around us. That's another way of letting yourself have pleasure and deliciousness. Taken the goodness all around. And do it at least four or five times a day. And just for maybe 10 seconds, 15 seconds, just like that Notice what's good. Often we look through loops of lac. Or eyes of lack”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And if you're eating, my thing is ice cream, if I'm eating ice cream when I'm not hungry, I'm not doing that. That's why it's helpful to remind myself that my intention is to show up completely.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, that is the holy moment. That's why it's a doorway. That's why food is the doorway. Because when you want to eat and you're not hungry, you have the chance yet another chance to say, If my purpose of really when you know what your intention is, which is to show up in this life, while you're still here on earth, that's the other thing that's showing up in the body does, landing in your body, you get to show up on earth while you're still here. You don't get to miss your life.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Bucket of them Yes, but if you ask yourself, so if you're eating unconsciously, chances are there's a ghost child there. That's what I'm saying. If it's me that's eating a bucket of almonds, then I can pretty much bet that something got triggered in me that I wasn't aware of when it got triggered. So she or some part of you want something, and it might just want a moment”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, and that's where once you, let's say it's never enough Nelly that we're talking about, or I'm unworthy, you know, or whoever feels unworthy.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so that sort of my old slash new eating guidelines, those were part of that. Eat what your body wants, eat when you're hungry, stop when you've had enough and have fun.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Name, love, welcome them. It's like, okay, fine. I'm run by that part of me that thinks, and this is what we usually call I, this is what I don't want people to do, is call it I. I have this feeling that I'm unworthy or I'm unlovable. Or I'm always feeling left out. First, I ask my students, stop using I when you say I, because it's not you, it's left out Lulu feels left out. Then you welcome that and you say basically to that part, okay, sweetheart. All right, honey. Here you are. And once you welcome them and they hear from you, they relax.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, well, what it will help you not do is eat when you're not hungry If you're in your body, it's hard to want to put food in there when it doesn't want it. So you start a relationship with you, who you take yourself to be, which is sort of the voice And your body. And you say, am I hungry? No. Okay, then what do I want? And what does this body want right now? So you're asking yourself what your body wants.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So they're the gateway to everything we say we want, which is to be in touch with presence itself or essence or true nature. This body is the gateway to that. So, you know, you feel, oh, my feet are on the ground and you feel the point of contact your feet are making with the earth. That's it. And then you feel the earth. And it's like, whoa, the earth pretty darn good. Then you feel... Point of contact your hands are making with each other. Or wherever your hands happen to be. And then where your back is touching. And so you just become aware of the president.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Without you asking. And the third reason I'm very into this out of your mind and into your body is that your body is the only place where you can really know presence. It's what Eckhart calls the power of now.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, I was eating for comfort because I was sad, because I was lonely, because I was grieving, because I was ashamed, because I felt unloved, but I didn't quite get that the food going in the mouth was not about loneliness or comfort or sweetness or whatever, or because I felt empty. Just Cheryl, these arms and these legs. And this heart and this liver have schlept me, have taken me from place to place for so many years. And what have I done to it? I have basically just said I'm lonely. Here, eat this. There wasn't appreciation. It wasn't thank you, body.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's important because, number one, when you feed, when you eat, you're feeding this. You're not feeding this. I mean, you are, of course, ultimately. But you're feeding your body. And I think for a long time, I didn't get that.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, it's coming out of your mind and into your body. So most of us live in our minds. Of course. I mean, I love my mind. It is sharp and smart and sparky and feisty. I mean, great mind. And to come down here, I mean, so uninteresting. And so...”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes. Right. Using that feature. Right. Because a lot of it is in women food and God. And so we're talking about different kinds of principles that are also included in that book. But I've just made them more specific.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was just going to say. You don't have a spiritual practice. If you don't have a spiritual practice, you're lost. But I think if you don't have a spiritual practice, you're lost. You're lost. You're lost.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He couldn't steal what was good. He couldn't steal, you know, the goodness, the everyday goodness, the sheer magnificence of trees, of earth, of the fact that I still had a body and I still had a partner that I loved.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's right. And it changed me. It changed me because I got happier and happier. He couldn't steal really what was important the most. And, you know,”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh yes, doomed, doomed, completely doomed Doomed. I call my husband who's in Antarctica at the time, and I said, Hi, honey, nobody died, but we did lose all of our money. We start crying, both of us. He says, sweetheart, we're going to be okay. But I had confidence in myself after a week that my mind could start going to the brink of terror and I could bring it back. So no matter what horrible thing happened ever, for the rest of my life, I saw that if I was conscious about noticing what I did have, not noticing what I didn't have, noticing what was good, that changed my mood every day.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I didn't, my house was not paid for I had the house, but which was mortgaged after the health plus a home equity line of credit that we owed on. Big mortgage car sweaters, and that was it on the physical level.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“How could anybody not know? And then I realized if I was gonna live, if I was going to sleep, if I was going to exist, I had to bring my mind back from the terror and start focusing on what was good. And I had to be fierce about it. There was no choice about it because otherwise I would careen off into such grief and terror and shame. And it was not a way to live. I mean, it took me a couple of days to come to this. Good friends who basically said to me, focus on what you have enough of, not what you've just lost. And so I'd pick up a cup. I have a cup. I have water. I have arms. I have legs. I have breath. I have a husband I love. I still have a roof over my head. And you know what? The most amazing thing happened. Within three to four days, maybe a week, I was happier than I had been in years.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But when you lose everything, Because I had to focus on what I had, not what I didn't have, because there was no way of getting through the night with that kind of terror, of having lost everything. Talk about shame and blame. Yes, because it was blame.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But then I realized I had to, but you know what, Oprah? What? That was one of the best things that ever happened to me in my life. How so? And you know why? Because We lost everything. We lost all of our money with Madoff, all of it. And 30 years of life savings gone. All of it. Got a phone call? Janina, are you sitting down? I thought my friend was going to tell me she had just had a bad hair day. And instead, she said, Madoff is in handcuffs. And I realized we've now lost everything.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I cried. I had very close friends. The first one I called said to me, nothing of value has been lost, and I said to her, This is not the time to be spiritual.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Ultimately, that's right Unlovable and I'm unworthy, but we each have sort of different takes on that theme. It's just thought and belief patterns really based on the stories we tell ourselves. And so in order to antidote that. It takes naming and welcoming the unloved parts of ourselves. And that's a hard thing to do.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Whether it ghost children? Those are the ghost children because they haunt you. And what they do, because we never listen to them, they turn to food.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To yourself and to that which turns to food because my newest understanding is that when people say I, I have a food problem, I don't actually feel like it's the I that has a food problem. It's not who they really know themselves to be. It's not their truth. It's not their true nature. It's some part of themselves, some sort of frozen, unnamed, and very unwelcome part of themselves go away. I don't want to hear from you. And because I call those ghosts.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Now, I came to know it because my own issues with food were so hellish. I really do feel like I lived in a hell world for many, many years. The point where I wanted to kill myself, and I was in fact suicidal. I was a couple of days away from killing myself. I had gone to a bookstore to discover the best way to do this. This was back in the late 70s, early 80s. And I discovered a book called Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach. And it was the first time, that was the first moment where I realized My relationship with food was the way that I was trying to speak to myself. And I knew that shame and deprivation and guilt and punishment never led anybody to change”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, that's exactly what I mean. I was just going to say, I couldn't have said that better myself. And you actually did. I did say that. Yes, yes.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm so glad you said that because if you examine your relationship with food and you find what's keeping you from discovering that whole whole whole, that actually is the essence of spirituality. What you find is that your essence, your true nature, what many people call God, but it's right there. And food will take you right there.”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, well, what I mean is that if you follow one thing all the way through to the end. You'll find everything. And so the subtitle of Women Food and God is an unexpected path to almost everything. So how you eat and what you believe about food, particularly when you're not hungry. And if you deprive or judge or shame yourself in your relationship with food and ask yourself about it and just track it all the way back, it will lead you to...”
2018-01-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Geneen Roth: Conscious Eating · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source