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When we look at the world through shattered lenses, the world looks shattered. When we eat a particular way because we believe that we are wrong if we don’t, freedom isn’t free. When we are still bound by beliefs about good and bad, it doesn’t matter what we eat or what we weigh—we are still caught in the obsession. We are still paying for taking up space in pounds of flesh. Unless we slow down, unless we are actually interested in the beliefs and the needs we are piling on top of the food, we continue to live in a limbo world in which the taste of food is all we know of heaven and the size of our thighs is all we know of hell. But it doesn’t have to be this way. The real holiness is not in what we achieve or eat or weigh. There is something better than endlessly pushing the boulder of obsession up the mountain: putting it down. And if you are willing to refrain from dieting and needing an instant solution, and if you want to use your relationship with food as a doorway to your true nature, it will happen.

Geneen Roth

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So many people who struggle with their body image or weight spend hours agonising about their food choices and beating themselves up over what they ate (or didn’t eat) at their last meal. But the truth is, for most of us, it’s actually not about the food at all. In fact, the foods we’re eating are completely secondary to the way we actually feel about ourselves. Everything outside of us is a reflection of our internal state.

Melissa Ambrosini

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Survivors of sexual assault and abuse often suffer subsequently from eating disorders or disordered eating. The reason is that both are about power. At face value, an eating disorder looks like a diet and rape looks like a sex crime. But both are about asserting power over a body. So my sister’s response to her teenage attack was to take the power of her body back by making every rigid choice about it. From this standpoint, I imagine being told to eat a fucking sandwich felt like an attack. “I MAKE THE CHOICES HERE.” Though incredibly damaging physically and spiritually, she was trying to assert her own power.

Erin Brown

This is so important.

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In our culture we’ve long decided that women’s bodies were for looking at and criticizing. For every ever-loving person who’s ever fought a demon, even with their own mirror… be kind. For you have no way of knowing of what you speak or how damaging your words can be. How can we possibly know? How can we be held responsible for every person and their life journey? You are not. But if you know enough to do better, you offer kindness. You know a body is more than something to be looked at and criticized. It’s someone’s home. And you’ve no idea what’s inside.

Erin Brown

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Everyone’s story is different, but I’ve never met a person without a story. Our bodies are our own, in some cases it’s the only thing we have. The way we treat it, the size it is, if we make healthful choices or not is not as simple as some people are active, healthy and awesome and others are out of control and deserving of criticism. That quote “Be kind, for every one is fighting some sort of battle,” could easily be applied to every disparaging remark ever made about a body. It’s more than “It’s none of your business” but rather, you have NO IDEA what is really going on within another. And when you do, when someone you love is battling some demon that is resulting in some terrible health ramifications as in the case of my sister, you react with compassion and not cruel words.

Erin Brown

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Weight is carried emotionally, spiritually and physically. It is held in our minds and our hearts and is never going to be ‘fixed’ focusing on the physical alone.

Alice Nicholls

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Perhaps I am just drunk on the absence of self-love. My body is an island my mind cannot reach to adore.

Christopher Poindexter

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I believe we are walking talking expressions of our deepest convictions; everything we believe about love, fear, and transformation, is revealed in how, when and what we eat.

Geneen Roth

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The thing you need to remember when you're talking to someone with an Eating Disorder, is that you're always talking about weight - even if YOU don't think you are, let me tell you - you are.

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We need to ‘normalise’ eating disorders – they are part of life, and need to be acknowledged openly and in the light. This is the best way of reducing their impact, of reducing the stigma, the fear, the loneliness, the isolation.

June Alexander

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What we believe about food and eating is an exquisite reflection of all our beliefs. As soon as the food comes out, the feelings come out. As soon as the feelings come out, there is an inevitable recognition of the self-inflicted violence and suffering that fuel any obsession. And on the heels of that recognition comes the willingness to engage with and unwind the suffering rather than be its prisoner.

Geneen Roth

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You think that if you shrink enough you can shrink away the emptiness inside you... But as you become smaller, the emptiness expands, until eventually it engulfs you.

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We can store for the hunger to come; we can live as if catastrophe is imminent. We can hide and sneak and stuff food, shoes, dresses; we can pretend that it’s possible to protect ourselves from the big horrible thing. Or we can wake up. Wanting is different from having. Wanting is in the future. It is based on an idea of what might make you happy in five minutes, tomorrow, next week. But having is here, now. Most of us don’t let ourselves have what’s in front of us, so we’re always wanting more. When you don’t let yourself have what you already have, you are always hungry, always searching, always restless.

Geneen Roth

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I understand what it’s like to grow up in a society that tells women that their beauty matters most, and at the same time defines a standard of beauty that is perpetually out of our reach. I also know the pain of internalising these messages. We have become our own jailors and we inflict our own punishments for failing to measure up. No one is crueller to us than we are to ourselves. Let us honour and respect our bodies for what they do instead of despising them for how they appear. Focus on living healthy and active lives, let our weight fall where it may, and consign our body hatred in the past where it belongs.

Kasey Edwards