Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds--our stories of loneliness, rejection, grief--that we do — Geneen Roth, Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds--our stories of loneliness, rejection, grief--that we do — Geneen Roth, Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds--our stories of loneliness, rejection, grief--that we do — Geneen Roth, Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds--our stories of loneliness, rejection, grief--that we do — Geneen Roth, Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds--our stories of loneliness, rejection, grief--that we do — Geneen Roth, Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
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Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds--our stories of loneliness, rejection, grief--that we don't realize they are in the past. They can't hurt us anymore.

— Geneen Roth, Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
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