Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I'm actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it.

I went from really hating my body, to disliking it, to accepting it but not exactly liking it, then accepting it and liking it, and now I love it.

Replace perfectionism with persistence. After all, in recovery and life, it's persistence that really pays off. Forget about perfection.

Recovery is about making room for the real me to exist.

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times.

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn't be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn't.

With Ed, I always pushed away the good and only heard the bad. Today, I let in the good.

Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I’m actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it.

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn’t be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn’t.

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through.

Clinicians have told me that our emotional is arrested at the age that an eating disorder takes control of our lives. After we recover, we pick up emotionally where we left off at that age.

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.

React with how can I help you versus how can I hurt you.

Repentance is the highest form of worship that a man can give to God.

Joy is the best makeup.

Skiing takes so much out of me, and when I start a family, I want to do it 100%.

Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land.

I'm pretty, but not beautiful. I sin, but I'm not the devil. I'm good, but I'm not an angel.

World War II was a must win.

If a person is right for a role, I don't care where they got their training.