Quotes About Self-care

You can't give away what you don't have. If you don't have love for yourself, then you can't be loving to others.

You must learn to cultivate your own garden and keep your nose out of everybody else's. If they want to grow rutabagas in it, if they want to use a different kind of fertilizer than you do, if they want to have weeds in it, that's really none of your business. The important thing is that yours is the way you want it to be.

Your primary relationship needs to be with yourself, not your family, business, country, culture, or ethnicity.

Declare that you're not going to fight. Don't fight colds, illnesses, or even serious afflictions. Don't fight with family members, or against political opinions. Don't fight addictions, and most important, don't fight yourself.

some kind of kindness. If that doesn't work, I immediately go to another employee or to a supervisor, or I leave the situation altogether. I will not stand there and be physically, mentally, intellectually, or spiritually abused by anyone, ever, because I know that in allowing this to happen, I have given that person permission to treat me that way.

Setting boundaries helps you reverse all that so you can stand up for yourself no matter what, be it to the people who love you the most or the ones who don't even know you.

remember to include yourself when dispensing kindness and nonjudgment.

When negativity feels like it's directed right at you, retreat to that place of kindness and love within and deflect that energy.

Think of yourself as too significant to live with anxiety about the things you have to do. So, the next time you know you are uncomfortable with postponement anxiety, remember that people who love themselves don't hurt themselves that way.

As long as you feel that you have to do anything because it is expected of you in a particular relationship, and your doing it creates any resentment or your not doing it any guilt, you can count yourself as having work to do in this erroneous zone.

Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

as self-knowledge develops, we begin to care more about what we think and less about what others ask of us. We

My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.

By choosing recovery and risking to be real, we set the healthy boundaries that say, "I am in charge of my recovery and my life, and no one else on this Earth is.

Because they have not healed their Child Within, they are generally unable to be a part of the safe and supportive healing of another. However, we can learn to set limits with these people, so that they do not continue to mistreat us. We set limits both with firmness and with love. We do so not with aggressiveness, but with assertiveness.

More health tips: Eat lots of fruits and vegetables. Get plenty of rest. And learn to duck.

Sometimes all we need is a little pampering to help us feel better...

Water heals itself. Every time. I like that. And if I'm being honest, maybe I need that.

You're skinny." "It's this crash weight loss diet I've been trying out.

If someone is bent on hurting herself, she'll find a way to do it. She was a grown woman; sooner or later, she was responsible for herself.

I will walk by myself and cure myself in the sunshine and the wind.

I have a lot of health anxiety.

Codependency is women's basic training.

If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play!