Hey everyone! I want to make sure you know that Geneen Roth is going to be on Oprah this Wednesday, May 12th, to discuss her new book, Women, Food, and God. Geneen ended her battle with compulsive eating over thirty years ago by saying yes to herself and no the damaging diet mentality that so many people still buy into. Her books have been a huge part of my own healing, and I wholeheartedly recommend them to any of you who have not yet made peace with food and with your body. Here is just a taste of the wisdom Geneen has to offer:

"The real miracle wasn't that I lost weight or that the biggest problem of my life was no longer a problem, it was that all this time, my longing -- which expressed itself in distorted eating -- was for the right thing but I didn't know how to listen, to be attentive. All this time, my self-destructive eating was a valiant though misguided attempt at being fully alive. Like a plant naturally curves to the light, I could trust the curves of my heart. I could trust that what I wanted most was to be whole. I was too busy pushing myself, driving myself, judging myself, hating myself, thinking I knew what I was supposed to change into and how to do it. I was like a caterpillar who spent seventeen years shaming myself for not being a better, stronger, thinner caterpillar without ever once considering that being a butterfly was possible. In the end, breaking free from emotional eating is about finally trusting that something else exists besides pain, sorrow, hatred, suffering, and that there is a rhythm, an order, and a natural push for light in every single one of us."  - In Geeneen's Own Words

Want more? Check out this awesome little video (only about five minutes) of Geneen chatting with Anne Lamott (another author I am NUTS about). REALY GOOD STUFF! In the video, Anne Lamott says, "there is something huge and revolutionary about the idea of not dieting anymore." I couldn't agree more.

Anyway, I'll be watching Oprah tomorrow for sure. Hope you'll tune in, too!

P.S. Wanna join the revolution? I have spaces available for my small group series, "Digging Deep," which is focused on loving our bodies and eating intuitively. If you are interested, please contact me for more information.

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