No act of love is ever wasted.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company

Compulsive eating is only the symptom; believing that you are not worth your own love is the problem. Go for the love. You will never be sorry.

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.

Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.

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.

Just because we form an opinion about ourselves, or anyone else, doesn't mean it is true.