Quotes About Self-care

...and torture myself with happy thoughts...

When an illness knocks you on your ass, you should stay and relax for a while before trying to get back up.

Health is a relationship between you and your body.

Your body is a temple but only if you treat it as one.

Stretching oneself too thin is the disease of modern life — letting oneself get too thick, the other.

I try to avoid stress — it makes me feel like I'm rubber-stamping all my organs "Urgent!"

Sometimes a headache is all in your head. Relax.

You are as important to your health as it is to you.

If you plant Twinkies in your body garden, how do you expect to harvest health?

Even when life isn't good on the outside, you have an option to make it good from the inside out.

Decorate yourself from the inside out.

If your body's not right, the rest of your day will go all wrong. Take care of yourself.

It's not okay to be critical of yourself.

Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.

Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on full-moon energy three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I am in a crescent phase.

Do not hold this pain of what has happened to you close to your heart, Isabelle. You must let it go. No matter how painful. It will ruin you. If you keep silent, if you swallow it, it will eat you like a cancer." I

Etre patient avec soi-même!" ("Be patient with yourself!")

He who licks his wounds cannot be affectionate

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

The only thumbnail you'll get from me is this: no one knows what's really wrong with you but you; no one can find a cure for it but you; no one but you can identify it as a cure; and once you find it, no one but you can do anything about it.

If the first thing you do when you wake up is reach for your phone, the signal you are sending your brain is that the needs of others –the messages on your phone –are more important than your own needs.

The chances are that if you begin taking care of your body with the right diet and regular exercise you will start to respect and like your body more.

Letting go doesn't mean not caring, it means not taking responsibility for what other people do, feel or think.

If you have been expending lots of energy mingling, counseling, or socializing, you need some down time to recover. Put it on your calendar so you can be intentional about it. And for an hour or so, go to a place by yourself. Read, relax, or do nothing. No one is there to talk to you for those minutes. Enjoy your blessed aloneness for a brief season.