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

When you don't want to be where you are, you create suffering for yourself. Change happens through acceptance, kindness and relaxation--not resistance, not warfare, not fights.

We eat the way we live.

For every diet there's an equal and opposite binge (bulimia which is binging and purging is another way of depriving yourself).

The relentless attempts to be thin take you further and further away from what could actually end your suffering: getting back in touch with who you really are. Your true nature. Your essence.

Your relationship to food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom.

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.