Quotes About Self-care

I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.

What do you care more about? The kids or your hair?

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.

We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.

One night you delete all your suicide notes from your computer. If things go bad again, it's not like you can't write a new one.

Breaking Free Activity #34 Are there any areas in your personal relationships in which you avoid setting appropriate boundaries? Do you: •?Tolerate intolerable behavior. •?Avoid dealing with a situation because it might cause conflict. •?Not ask for what you want. •?Sacrifice yourself to keep the peace. If you applied the Second Date rule or the Healthy Male rule to these situations, how might you change your behavior?

By trying to please everyone, Nice Guys often end up pleasing no one — including themselves.

Since Nice Guys learned to sacrifice themselves in order to survive, recovery must center on learning to put themselves first and making their needs a priority.

Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.

The key to enjoying the moment is to always carry a list of "Things I Gotta Do That Can Wait."

Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.

[T]he way he treats his body, you'd think he was renting.

Turn on your heart light," who is going to magically heal us all. The only one who can turn on your heart light is you. The only one who can give your inner children healthy parenting is you. The only healer who can heal you is within you.

Doing our emotional healing allows us to feel clear about what is in front of us instead of torturing ourselves by obsessively thinking, trying to figure out what's right and what's wrong.

It is necessary to take down the dysfunctional defense systems but we have to replace them with defenses that work.

Codependence is being at war with ourselves - which makes it impossible to trust and Love ourselves

If you are tired or distracted, do not code.

The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.

You don't have to be nice all the time. Get angry once in a while. You're entitled.

Remember: You have only so much energy and so much time. Every moment wasted on the affairs of others subtracts from your strength.

Most important of all, do not take pity. Do not enmesh yourself in trying to help. The infector will remain unchanged, but you will be unhinged.

Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others, that is too high a price to pay.

Sometimes you had to laugh if only to keep from crying.

I never heard of forkroot, but walking seems to help the effects pass. You can walk most things off.