Lets try to come to a place of compassion about mental illness, in all its forms, and help each other find healing.

Each second is a second you can make a new choice, a better choice, a healthy choice, a present choice.

I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was a difficult lesson for me. It was very humbling and very bizarre.

I really felt that I had to stay level, I had to control, I had to know what I was eating, I had to know what I was doing, I had to work out. All that stuff is very powerful and it really helps, but now I don't do it out of survival. At first, I was just trying to survive. I assumed at some point I'd be screwed otherwise.

I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.

We live in a society that is afraid of ways of being it doesn't understand.

I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I'd learned that I couldn't really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can't fix. I didn't quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then.