Pay more attention to losing inches than losing pounds.

The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative.

Declare a truce and accept food as a life-giving friend.

I have always been with men who were type A, alpha males. I must exist because I'm with him, I'd think. But what made them what they were also often meant they were lacking empathy genes. And now I know I don't need an alpha male; I need somebody who's interesting. I'm not pretending that I'm 100 percent healed, so I might not know if a man is right for me right away, but it wouldn't take me seven years to figure it out. Maybe a month or two.

Who am I? I'm a survivor. I'm a woman with tremendous inner resources and resilience. I care about people. I believe in 'Do unto others as you would have others do unto you,' and I live by that. I am becoming authentic, and that's important to me. I have surpassed both my parents in terms of emotional stability, happiness and well-being. And I'm a lucky woman. I've deserved my luck.

I left acting for 15 years, and I think it's really nice to have another life. I took too much for granted when I was younger.

You may be old, you may be in your third act, but you can still be vital and sexual and funny. Life isn't over.