If you don't step across the threshold of what you already know into the world of challenges, you never truly measure yourself.

I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work.

I use nothing but homeopathic remedies, for my girls as well.

Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.

What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.

The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice.

I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.