You survived the abuse, you’re going to survive the recovery.

~Before you have kids, when you're on a plane and there's a screaming kid, all you can think is, Give me earplugs! As soon as I became a mom, though, I got it. You find yourself asking, 'What can I do? You want me to hold him?' Because you think about the time your kids was screaming, and there was the one parent who looked at you and smiled. And that compassion was everything.~

These days we don’t have to fit into something other people think we are. We’ve leveled the playing field, life is inclusive. I’m a mom, sex detective, wife, fearless, gentle — we can now, with grace, be all of what we are.

My Dad taught me that good health is all about living in gratitude.

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

Having a child changes everything. All of a sudden you have so much to lose, so much to live for.

To me, the definition of sexy - at any age - is strength and confidence.