What I know for sure is this: You are built not to shrink down to less, but to blossom into more. To be more extraordinary. To use every moment to fill yourself up.

I still want what I've always wanted ... to be the best person I can be.

If you don't give something back when you get, you don't keep.

I think I try to speak to the heart of the woman who I know is interested in growing into herself.

I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. It goes by so fast. I wanted to watch her. I wanted to be that parent - because at that point in time, I was a single parent. Watch her go to school, and when she got home, be there. I wanted that moment.

If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.