It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.

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.

You will stop turning to food when you start understanding in your body, not just your mind, that there is something better...Truth, not force, does the work of ending compulsive eating.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company

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.

If you decided to reteach yourself your own loveliness today, what would you do? How would you speak to yourself? Can you allow yourself that much?

I feel like it's been important for me to use my own personal experiences with food and money to help people to not feel ashamed. I felt so much shame about my own experiences.