I'm just grateful that my body is healthy. I want to be on this planet for a long time, so I try to eat things that make me feel good and make me strong. But I also love food and I love life: Some days having that extra bowl of pasta and a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup means more to me than being thin.

If you stop for one second and do something, everyone is happy. You pay it forward and it comes back to you twelve-fold.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

Adoption was a bumpy ride - very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight.

When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in.

Our early dating life consisted of trying to figure out whether we were dating.

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.