When my friend Ed wanted to stop smoking, a Zen master told him that he needed to love smoking first. “Create a ritual each time you smoke,” the teacher said. “Take a cigarette and wrap it in a beautiful cloth. Go to a quiet place where you can be alone for a few minutes. Take […]
Why Your Relationship with Food and Your Body Matters More than Ever Now, in the midst of these extraordinary times, is the perfect moment to come home to your body. To refine your relationship with food, to remember why you even care about food when so much is going on that needs or asks for […]
Why Your Relationship with Food and Your Body Matters More than Ever Free Talk with Geneen October 3rd • 5:30 pm PT / 8:30 pm E Bookmark this page! During the call, Geneen will talk about: how to turn insight into action how to recognize when you are caught in the past and make a choice […]
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During her free call last week, Geneen talked about why it’s so important — now more than ever — to pay attention to your body and your relationship with food. It was a powerful hour … and you can listen to it streaming online through Monday, Oct. 8th. LEARN MORE […]
Seven Steps to Freedom with Food Free Talk with Geneen Don’t miss the chance to listen to the recording of Geneen’s free talk last Thursday: Seven Steps to Freedom with Food. Even if you’ve heard this talk once, listen again! You’ll hear things you missed the first time. And if you haven’t heard it yet, […]
Seven Steps to Freedom with Food Free Talk with Geneen Thursday • September 13 • 6 pm PT / 9 pm ET Join Geneen on Thursday, September 13th, at 6 pm Pacific / 9 pm Eastern as she explores the Seven Steps to Freedom with Food. How they instantly cut through the suffering with food, weight, and […]
Join Geneen TONIGHT at 6 pm Pacific / 9 pm Eastern as she explores the Seven Steps to Freedom with Food. How they instantly cut through the suffering with food, weight, and the years of stories you have told yourself about doom, failure, and never having the life you want. And, the bonus is, they lead to weight loss. LEARN MORE
No matter how developed you are in any other area of your life, no matter what you say you believe, no matter how sophisticated or enlightened you think you are, how you eat tells all. Bummer. But think of it this way: the desire to eat when you are not hungry reveals what you truly […]
Don’t miss the chance to listen to the recording of Geneen’s free talk. Geneen talked in depth about the Seven Steps and how they can be applied to any situtation, anywhere. Steps that instantaneously cut through the suffering about food, weight, and the years of awful stories you tell yourself. LISTEN NOW
Seven Steps to Freedom with Food Free Talk with Geneen TONIGHT • September 13 • 6 pm PT / 9 pm ET Join Geneen TONIGHT at 6 pm Pacific / 9 pm Eastern as she explores the Seven Steps to Freedom with Food. How they instantly cut through the suffering with food, weight, and the years […]
Ever since I first saw pictures and statues of Kuan-Yin, the Buddhist goddess of infinite compassion, I’ve wanted to be like her. Not only is she gorgeous – the kind of woman my 13-year-old nephew would call “a babe” – but she also manages to appear utterly casual while sporting a tiara. And here’s the […]
As part of our ongoing program for retreat students, we meet together once a month for a morning meditation. Sometimes they are spoken, sometimes they are quiet and vast. This one was so full of magic that we wanted you to have it, as our gift.
In this powerful hour –- Why Weight: Eating to Thrive (and What Stops You) — Geneen talks about moving from deprivation to choosing foods you love because you love how you feel when you eat them. She explores many core beliefs about losing weight, feeling vulnerable and the swing to bingeing. And how best to feed what makes you feel most alive. LISTEN HERE
If a wish-granting genie had appeared during the 17 years I was gaining and losing a thousand pounds, I would’ve said, “Take 50 pounds off my body immediately and make me thin. When I wake up tomorrow, let me eat ice cream without guilt and munch potato chips without seeing them on my hips within […]
Recently, I was interviewed by a talk show host from a military radio station. She wanted to know about emotional eating during stressful times. Like deployment, she said. Like sending your husband off to war and not knowing if he’ll come back. She said that military wives feel as if they need to hang tough […]
An excerpt from This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide We saw it in the window of a store on a side street in San Francisco: the piece of clothing for which I’d been waiting without knowing I’d been waiting. “Come and be enthralled,” it whispered. “Let my fringes anoint you.” I slipped into the floor-length […]
The million-dollar answer to the question of why weight loss is so difficult to maintain, is that along with the exaltation of being thin come less positive feelings. The lightness that accompanies an unencumbered body feels vulnerable. And if we’ve used our weight in any way, even unconsciously, to keep us safe, the joy of […]
An excerpt from This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide My friend Dave (quoting from multiple sources) once told me that “A friend is someone you call when you need to move. A good friend is someone you call when you need to move a body.” My friend Isabel is the body-moving kind of friend. […]
An excerpt from This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide In the end, the point of losing weight is not to lose weight. It’s not to get into a pair of size six jeans, eat chocolate every day, or have cantaloupe buns. Which isn’t to say that any or all of these aren’t sublime […]
