Ask yourself if you are in this for the long run-if it's only your weight you want to change or if you are willing to use your eating patterns as a portal to the inner universe. And if the answer is the latter, then there is no end to what you can learn, be, understand, become.

Imagine treating yourself with the kindness that you show people you love.

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

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.

Its not so much that we believe what we see, but that we see what we believe

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.

If you treat your feelings with as much love as you treat your dog or your cat or your child you'll feel as if you were living in heaven.