Quotes About Self-care

It's okay to be burnt out.

I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.

I wanted to do the kind of show that I would want to watch as a busy wife, mother, and midde-aged woman.

Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.

I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between.

I'm not actually very good at the maintenance thing. I don't buff, exfoliate, pluck, rinse, moisturise, suck, bleach... whatever all those women do.

Don't allow people to suck up all your time with their questions or problems. Learn to say 'no' more often.

I am a big sucker for spas and I like massages.

I am a sucker for a cute PJ set.

It's amazing, the mentality shift that occurs in pregnancy. All of a sudden you want to be good to yourself.

I'd gone from being a mum to all of a sudden having people fussing and overly pampering me. It can easily change you.

Grooming-wise, it is now a constant battle as I progressively turn into my father. I have to keep on top of ear and nose hair - things you never believe will happen to you. Suddenly I have a shaving brush in my ear and I don't know where it's come from, and the more hair I take the out, the more it surges back.

If your insides are not well looked-after, then your outsides are going to suffer. It's like a glass that's not cleaned from the inside. Whatever you do to polish it from the outside, it's still going to look dirty. So that's the analogy.

We need to establish boundaries between our personal and professional lives. When we don't, our work, our health, and our personal lives suffer.

Successful people suffer because they work beyond their energy.

The players who don't look after themselves physically and mentally and enjoy the nights out a bit too much will suffer, the sport is a lot more professional now.

That's the thing that has suffered, because I got used to putting so much of my energy into the show and my other businesses, I did not focus on myself as a music artist.

When we forgive someone, it doesn't excuse their actions; it frees us from our own chronic stress and suffering, so it's in our own self-interest.

I never slept very well when I was playing. Looking back, I was always suffering with depression and mental illness-type stuff I didn't understand.

I would like to learn more about what I can do for my hair, because I think I don't really know; my poor hair is suffering because of my lack of knowledge.

I'm always on the go, which means my health has often been the thing that suffers.

I'm not a Twinkie lover. I don't do sugar or dairy either.

The best cure for a double-bogey is a toffee, or sugar - any type of sugar; I love my chocolate.

I've been slightly hypoglycemic since I was a kid, so I have to make sure I eat in the morning and get my sugar.