Quotes About Self-care

The idea of preventive medicine is faintly un-American," the Chicago Tribune noted in 1975. "It means, first, recognizing that the enemy is us.

I love photo sessions. I'm alone, I'm the queen, everyone's taking care of me.

Recognize the vampires in your life and slay them. Your happiness counts on it.

Your happiness is always worth it! No matter what.

Suicide is a very selfish act—probably the most selfish thing anyone can do.

If the relentless personal maintenance plan has taken over your life, give it a rest.

I gained over 100 lbs. that I could never lose. My hair was falling out. I was tired all the time. I couldn't maintain muscle. I had no energy. It gave me some relief that there was something actually wrong with me and I wasn't crazy, but it was really hard knowing that there is something wrong with my body and I couldn't fix it.

I don't care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace.

I'm not religious, but I do pray. It's 60 seconds of meditation, visualizing myself, looking at myself, and being conscious of my own consciousness. That will align me for the rest of the day.

When you savour and relish every moment, then you learn the art of preserving yourself.

I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.

I rely way too much on Seamless, and I really need to learn how to feed myself.

Don't put the fast food in your body. Yeah, there are a couple days where you want some Burger King. That's fine, but you can't rely on that stuff. You have to eat healthy, get your carbs, get your rest.

I really rely on knowing how to apply make-up properly, rather than slapping it on and hoping for the best.

I'm trying to get to a point where I tell people, if you want to get in touch with me, please don't rely on email. I don't want to be a slave to it.

When I was younger, I was relying on those young-girl genetics. I wasn't watching what I was eating or looking at nutrition. Now I'm paying attention, and my body is leaner. I'm healthier. I'm eating better. I'm just in better shape.

While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.

I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was never going to happen to me again. I made a brave step to walk out in a society when you didn't walk out of an abusive marriage. It was mental and physical abuse.

Home remedies are the best.

Often, I write to feel better and to heal - to cope with things that I'm dealing with. I'm either writing to get out of a feeling or to get into the feeling, to feel it more. Usually it's the perfect remedy, but if it isn't, I focus on other parts of what I'm making that don't involve writing. If neither are working, I simply forfeit the day.

Remember we're all human and we all have our good days and bad days and days when we feel banging and other days when we feel absolutely rotten and that's ok.

Don't overpluck your eyebrows. A make-up artist told me this once, and I've always remembered it.

The idea that we all have to be Pinterest-perfect, killing it on all fronts, drinking our probiotics, remembering to have Rishi, and putting all these things in our kids' lunches - there's a lot of pressure to do all of the things. And we can't do all of the things. I can do a few things, and I've got them nailed. I think that's more realistic.

I have to constantly remind myself that no one is perfect and that this is my journey, and I have to be kind to myself.