Quotes About Self-care

I don't like washing away your body's natural oils and pheromones. Those are good. You have to keep those.

Drinking two liters of water a day, washing your face only with water when it's morning, don't touch your face often with your hands, and make sure to wear sunscreen!

I try to be very cautious when washing my face.

Reverse washing was a huge game changer for me, because if anyone knows me, they know I am obsessed with getting volume in my hair.

Part of getting over pain and hurt doesn't always mean we have to talk about it. Sometimes it is wiser to keep our thoughts to ourselves. We forget how powerful words can be.

I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you're not right for yourself, it's impossible to be right for anyone.

We burn out not because we don't care but because we don't grieve. We burn out because we have allowed our hearts to become so filled with loss that we have no room left to care.

Grieving is a way of self-care.

Protecting ourselves from loss rather than grieving and healing our losses is one of the major causes of burnout. Very few of the professionals I have treated for burnout actually came in saying that they were burned out. I don't think most of them knew. The most common thing I've been told is, 'There's something wrong with me. I don't care anymore. Terrible things happen in front of me and I feel nothing.

Bruises on the soul hurt even more than bruises on the leg and take longer to heal. Maybe the trick is to try to avoid smashing into stuff so much. And then to be kind to ourselves as we slowly heal.

Stephanie Mines is brilliant in her ability to articulate the complexities of shock and trauma, along with the framework for healing that she has developed. This makes her classes deeply gratifying and inspiring. I now have invaluable tools that support me in caring for myself, as well as skills and a new perspective that helps me in my care of others.

I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.

Be aware of what you allow to fuel your thoughts, the energy you take in and what emotions you put out and how it effects you and others..

To be merciful to [indwelling] sin is to be cruel to yourself.

Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

The heights of self-torment is not acting on what makes you feel good!

When a dog wants to hang out the "Do Not Disturb" sign, as all of us do now and then, he is regarded as a traitor to his species.

Love your body. Be kind to it, nourish it, tender it. It is the pure instrument of expression that allows you to experience life on this plane.

Put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others.

You have to eat and keep going. Eating is a small, good thing in a time like this.

Losing weight is not about how to lose weight; it is about how to regain health.

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.

The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.

Be kind to your shadow.