Finding Joy
Of this I am certain: Something happens every time I stop fighting with the way things are. Something happens to every one of my students when they stop running their familiar programs about fear and deficiency and emptiness.
Of this I am certain: Something happens every time I stop fighting with the way things are. Something happens to every one of my students when they stop running their familiar programs about fear and deficiency and emptiness.
When you can’t live the rest of your life with ease, the weight itself needs to be addressed. When you stop struggling, stop suffering, when you actually relax and listen to the truth of what is there, something bigger than your fear will catch you.
Most systems of weight loss fail because they don’t live up to their promise: weight loss does not make people happy. Or peaceful. Or content. Being thin does not address the emptiness that has no shape or weight or name.
Start questioning your stories and look for the truth. Ask yourself what would happen if you stopped the incessant chatter about how lumpy or stretchy or ugly your body is.
Every day now, when I find myself entranced by my stories — the world is about to end, it’s their fault, it’s my fault, I’m irreparably damaged — I stop. That’s it, that’s all. I stop. I ask myself who I would be without the story. I ask myself what is actually true in that very second.
A story is just a story, whether it’s about waking up or the end of days or why my mother did what she did when I was ten. And I’ve been very fond of my stories and the tangle of further stories they generated because I was convinced they were me.
Anne Lamott shares her thoughts and personal experience with Geneen as they discuss Women Food and God.
Oprah shares what she learned from reading Women Food and God.
Oprah discusses Geneen Roth’s book Women Food and God and the lessons she learned from the chapter about “reteaching loveliness.”
Retreat students talk about the Women Food and God Retreat and how the retreat has changed their lives.
Geneen talks with Eckhart Tolle about one of our greatest challenges – how we deal with money.
Geneen continues her conversation with Eckhart Tolle about our relationship with money.
Geneen and Eckhart Tolle continue the conversation about our relationship with money.
Geneen Roth and Eileen Fisher discuss womens’ relationship to money and wealth.
Eileen Fisher and Geneen share their personal stories about money.
