You Don’t Need to be Fixed: Geneen Roth
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Geneen Roth is done trying to fix the messy parts of her life, and she wants you to consider the possibility that a good part of your magnificence lies in your mess. A mega New York Times bestselling author of books like When Food Is Love and Women Food and God, Roth has been teaching groundbreaking workshops for over 30 years. She's been featured everywhere from The Oprah Winfrey Show, to 20/20, the Today show, Good Morning America, The View and beyond.
In her new book, This Messy Magnificent Life, she invites us to stand in our own imperfection, to allow space to feel loved and whole and good, even when open questions remain. And, to reclaim a sense of agency and expansion over our bodies, lives, relationships and power at a time when too many feel a lack of control and contraction.
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| 0:00.0 | I pretty much say I think everybody's got three themes that they go around and around |
| 0:07.5 | in their lives. |
| 0:09.4 | Mine were I'm unlovable, I'm not worthless, and the little match girl theme, which is |
| 0:17.6 | standing out in the cold with no shoes on and rags, looking at in the snow, looking |
| 0:23.4 | the family on the other side of the picture window, cooking turkey in the little velvet |
| 0:28.1 | dresses and hugging and kissing and loving each other. |
| 0:31.5 | And I'm the one always. |
| 0:33.3 | And what this theme still comes up, something can easily trigger that, where I don't belong, |
| 0:39.4 | where I'm on the other side of the warm I call it. |
| 0:46.4 | Janine Roth has had a voice in her head from the earliest possible days that she can remember. |
| 0:52.4 | But here's the thing, she is not suffering from some diagnosable condition. |
| 0:58.2 | It's the same voice that many of us have. |
| 1:00.6 | Maybe we call it by a different name. |
| 1:02.2 | It's the voice of shame and blame. |
| 1:03.8 | It's the voice of not fitting in. |
| 1:05.9 | It's the voice of difference. |
| 1:07.0 | It's the voice of destruction. |
| 1:08.5 | It's the voice of not enough. |
| 1:11.2 | And that led to an extraordinarily dark place for the better part of two decades in her |
| 1:16.7 | life. |
| 1:17.7 | Until she had a moment of reckoning that changed everything, she since has become really a leading |
| 1:22.9 | voice, a luminary in the world of understanding the relationship between self-worth, value, |
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