Quotes About Self-care

What fears are propelling me to work so compulsively? and, What is being sacrificed as I pursue this goal? As you answer, remember to do so in a loving and nonjudgmental way. You are doing the best you can, and are now in the process of making some new choices.

If your thinking isn't leading your life toward healthy attitudes and positive feelings, you can choose to change the station.

Your fatigue is telling you it's time to lighten the inner load.

Being co-dependent means we consistently put others' needs, wants, and demands before our own—in other words, emotional dependence.

We get off the guilt train by reminding ourselves that we are not responsible for other people's happiness.

I haven't used my brain for so long, the poor thing is huddled in a corner, waiting to be fed.

Had a note from Mr Cherry asking me when I can resume my paper round. I sent a note back to say that due to my mother's desertion I am still in a mental state. This is true. I wore odd socks yesterday without knowing it. One was red and one was green. I must pull myself together. I could end up in a lunatic asylum.

Don't you understand about your dirty condition?

Keep yourself healthy, my butt. Next you'll be flipping them all nasty one-handed gestures and telling me its an AMA approved method of controlling your blood pressure.

The recovery task for this stage is to take hold of yourself one moment at a time, to recognize that you are a separate person, a fully capable adult, responsible for your own self-care. It is no one else's responsibility to meet your emotional needs; only you can do that. Emotional self-reliance involves accepting the intense feelings of the experience, taking stock of your present reality, and assuring yourself that you will survive.

When you walk into a room, a healthy, beautiful smile is incredibly important.

I usually get up around 6 A.M. It takes me a while to get going. In our household, I am the first one up. I usually make coffee for myself, draw a bath and have a big soak. I read in the bath.

I sleep in coconut oil. I just soak in it... in my hair, on my face, on my skin, all over - it's kind of my thing.

I really like the ritual of shaving. I like getting the perfect brush and finding the right sandalwood soap. The act of shaving, though, is not fun. I like beards and the ease of them.

At the end of the day, I make sure to remove my makeup. I also drink a lot of water and use a good soap.

I only put soap on my face once a day, in the evening, and I'll add in a face mask or exfoliating product ever so often.

I've had very deep moments of sadness. What I do is really sob, really cry, do whatever it is, and then kind of release it. Then I can go cook dinner or make a phone call to a friend.

The fact that I'm sober isn't really public knowledge, decidedly and deliberately.

I realized I couldn't raise two kids, coach soccer, be on the PTA, teach full time, and do all the administrative bookkeeping. I do need to sleep four or five hours a day.

When you're working so much, it's so hard. When you do have time off, or when I had time off, rather than going out and seeing loads of people and being really sociable, I was always quite a homebody.

I work 18 to 20 hours a day, seven days a week, so I don't have time for a social life. Or any life outside work.

Social media demands a lot of us on top of our already demanding lives. So let's disconnect as we need to and renew our interest and ourselves.

There's no social media or Googling yourself. You only have to do it once to learn never to do it again.

I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages.