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

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.

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.

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.

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.

How would your life be different if…You stopped validating your victim mentality? Let today be the day…You shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.

No "we" should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

Never was I supposed to hear the words 'He says he wants to see you.' But now that I have, there's no way to refuse.

Don't expect anyone to give you anything. If you really believe in something, then fight for it.

I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.

Having one less child is the biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet

Our economy is broken. I'm not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.

Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I'm a real touchstone of history.

I was consumed with being a mom. I didn't think beyond that.

Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.