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

If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend.

If LOVE could talk to you about your relationship with food, what would it say?

You are lovable, you are loving; your choices about food will reflect that, if you give yourself a chance.

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

There's a basic feeling of lack that we want to distract ourselves from. We want to fix it by looking outside ourselves, as if it is going to fill us up.

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.