“You are not broken. You are not a problem to be solved. Solving your problem, whatever you perceive your problem or problems to be, is not the key to happiness.”

“The moon changes each night but she does so in an understandable rhythm. And just as the tides ebb and flow and the moon waxes and wanes, our bodies hormones ebb and flow and our energies wax and w...”

“Im not saying that you should deny the difficult events of your life. But the fact that you survived is also a wonderful story to tell. And that story, the story of the way you came through a diffi...”

“Sometimes you need a reminder that negative comments about your body arent even really about your body, theyre about society and our societys wrongheaded and impossibly narrow definition of a good ...”

“I think fitting in is highly overrated. Id rather just fit out... Fitting out means being who you are, even when people insist that you have to change. Fitting out means taking up space, not apolog...”

“Beauty shouldnt be about changing yourself to achieve an ideal or be more socially acceptable. Real beauty, the interesting, truly pleasing kind, is about honoring the beauty within you and without...”

“HOW do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, soWHYpush to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree isWHERE you want to be? Faultle...”

“When she thinks of the toxins built up inside of her from so many years of eating carelessly, of the resentment that has grown steadily over fifteen years of marriage, of the stretch marks and the ...”

“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathingthey are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would nev...”

“Eating a can be the weight that pulls you under or the life raft. It's your choice.”

“Self-help isn't really self-help unless someone else is also helping you. We'd like to be that someone.”

“If I don't eat junk, I don't gain weight.”