You are lovable, you are loving; your choices about food will reflect that, if you give yourself a chance.

My closet was full, yet I was always focused on the sweater I didn't have, or on the next pair of boots. I wasn't allowing myself to take in what I had. I could never experience what "enough" was.

Its not so much that we believe what we see, but that we see what we believe

Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity.

Weight loss does not make people happy. Or peaceful. Being thin does not address the emptiness that has no shape or weight or name. Even a wildly successful diet is a colossal failure because inside the new body is the same sinking heart.

The problem isn't that we have bodies; the problem is that we're not living in them.

It's important to focus on the good in life and appreciate it.