“Why do you go away?  So that you can come back.  So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors.  And the people there see you differently, too.  Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

“…hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are.  Being one place and wanting to somewhere else…Wanting life to be different from what it is.  That’s also called leaving without leaving.  Dying before you die.

“There’s an adrenaline rush that comes with denying the common rules of society: that I should always be trying to lose weight, that I should always be unhappy with some flaw. To say I am perfectly content with my body and all the parts that assemble i...

“Your present circumstance don’t determine where you can go, they merely determine where you start.” – Nido Quebein Today’s guests are Jenny Jaffe and Sarah Hartshorne, creators of the nonprofit organization and YouTube channel Project UROK.

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus Today’s guest is Louise O’Neill author of Only Ever Yours and Asking For It. In this episode we discuss: What does it mean to be beautiful?

“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head.  Always.  All the time.  That story makes you what you are.  We build ourselves out of that story.” – Patrick Rothfuss Today’s guest is Camille dePutter,

“A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.” – Madeleine L’Engle Today’s guest is Jessie Kahnweiler, filmmaker and star of the new web series The Skinny. In this episode we discuss: Why it’s cathartic NOT to make your art therapy Why we need media to show that...

“I am the poet of the body, and I am the poet of the Soul.” —Walt Whitman This week’s guest is Mindy Dillard, an award-winning singer-songwriter and a body image activist who recently released her second full length feature album,

“You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.” – Kurt Vonnegut Today’s guest is Joanna Kay of Middle Ground Musings. In this episode we discuss: What happens when you only recover “enough” to convince yourself of something that isn...

“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.” – Oprah Winfrey Today’s guest is Jessica Raymond, founder and director of Recovery Warriors, a rapidly growing resource hub for all things related to eating disorder recov...