You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. Treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today.

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.

Separate the desire to be thin from the desire to be cherished.

Chocolate, I am sure, is the concrete manifestation of love.

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.

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.

Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on.