Quotes About Self-care

I definitely have to pray and spend a lot of time by myself when I can.

I know that I pray a lot, and I take time for myself.

I just have to keep working, just stay on top of my game, stay on top of my weight and stay prayed up.

My self healing lies in praying for those who have harmed me.

When you gather up all the balls of life that you try to juggle, it is a very difficult thing to try to focus in on taking good care of yourself. But that's why God invented me - so I can come and teach and preach and make people laugh and give them some education so they can start liking themselves better.

When you usually think of dessert for one, its something microwaved in a mug or a precious, portioned miniature.

I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

My first pregnancy, I gained 75 pounds.

I had absolutely no idea how I had ballooned during my pregnancy. All I thought about was eating plenty of food to keep my baby healthy.

I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.

I gained 60 pounds during my pregnancy, but I didn't say, 'I want to lost 10 pounds every month!' Instead, I said, 'I will lose two to three pounds.' I eventually saw progress, and that made me work harder.

Pregnancy forces you to put your health first.

Of course everybody is different, but if you're having a strong, healthy pregnancy, there's not a lot you can do to hurt it. That being said, we should do as right as we can by our children, but we just need to be a little more forgiving of ourselves and not so much perfectionists because it's hard enough as it is.

I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals.

Before I was pregnant, I felt strong but not fit.

I think when I was pregnant with my first child - he's about 10 or 11 now - I first noticed changes in my skin, which can make you panic a bit. I had a bit of melasma.

I have always 'styled' myself, but when I got pregnant with KJ and my body was changing monthly, I needed some serious help LOL.

I loved dressing for my pregnant body. A pregnant woman's body is so beautiful. Towards the end, it does get harder, and then it became all about flats and comfortable maxi dresses.

When I was pregnant with my second baby, I almost gained 50 pounds. I enjoyed my pregnancy, but then I had to lose the weight for work.

I became completely obsessed with body oils while pregnant.

The mom guilt is really something that not many moms talk about. You leave your house for an hour and you feel guilty about it. That's something I wasn't aware of before I was pregnant.

Number one, I am somebody who is in shape before I get pregnant. I get in pregnant shape because it's not my normal shape, obviously. I get bigger when I'm pregnant. But I stay in pregnant shape and I work really hard to be really strong and keep my circulation going.

The day I don't attend to my nostrils is the day I will have forsworn that world and become a different person. Someone otherwise preoccupied. Someone who couldn't care less what anyone thinks of his appearance - someone for whom the material life has lost its appeal.

I think that with beauty, people jump to the end instead of starting from the beginning with a good lotion or prep.