“Take care of your body because it’s always trying to take care of you.”

You are not hard to love. You are just stuck in a cycle of asking for it from the wrong person.

We have to learn to spot the difference and reflect often.

Appreciate people when you see their struggle, not only when you see them successful.

An expectation is a hidden agenda with control at its root.

Self-love is not only about acceptance; it is also about growth.

Your parents don’t teach you how to heal, experience does.

Productive stress is a modern mask for addiction to chaos.

Honoring your mother is not the same as honoring her wounds.

Rejections are invitations to love yourself a bit more.

Nothing worth having comes easily. Nothing worth having can be held without gratitude, respect and humility.

Finish your food or you won’t get any dessert later.

There is no alternative to success. So stop thinking you should already be there.

My healing isn’t an abandonment of you. It’s a choice to no longer abandon me.

Nothing changes, unless we change.

Let go of the version of you that didn’t prioritize their wellbeing and failed to recognize their worth.⁣

We fear what we don’t understand.

I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given.

I feel very strongly that curves are natural, womanly and real. I shall continue to hope that women are able to believe in themselves for who they are inside, and not feel under such incredible pressure to be unnaturally thin.

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.

Getting healthy isn’t just about losing weight. It’s not limited to adjusting our diet and hoping for good physical results. It’s about recalibrating our souls so that we want to change – spiritually, physically, and mentally. And the battle really is in all three areas.

Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.

Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.

I never felt scandal and confession were necessary to be an actress. I’ve never revealed my self or even my body in films. Mystery is very important.

Symptoms are the body’s mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.