Quotes About Self-care

A woman's health is her capital.

When we do not put our primary emotional energy into solving our own problems, we take on other people's problems as our own.

Our goal will be to have relationships with both men and women that do not operate at the expense of the self, and to have a self that does not operate at the expense of the other.

Remember that women have a long legacy of assuming responsibility for other people's feelings and for caring for others at the expense of the self. Some of us may care for others by picking up their dirty socks or doing their "feeling work"; some by being less strong, self-directed, and competent than we can be so as to avoid threatening those important to us. Changing our legacy is possible but not easy. Think small to begin with, but think.

We can only absorb so much anxiety without becoming sick or symptomatic ourselves.

manage ourselves when we are in their grip.

how we may be too responsible for another person and, at the same time, not responsible enough for our own behavior.

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.

Please, people, do not fuck with depression. It's merciless. All it wants is to get you in a room alone and kill you. Take care of yourself.

and hurtful comments and replace them with respectful, safe interactions. You must move from self-care to caring for this Space Between.

I once heard her tell a friend that she was, in fact, a 120-pound woman, but she kept herself wrapped in fat in order to prevent bruising.

learned a long time ago that any kind of hate turns inward and ruins a person.

The heart is itself its own medicine, The heart all its own wounds heals.

I wondered if that principle of renewal could be applied to a person. If you left a girl alone, she could learn to heal herself. She could consciously forget bad things, or at least learn to live with them.

Sometimes when you are good at hard work, you give yourself too much of it. And with too much hard work in front of you, you might not also have the time and space to be truly brilliant.

I put on lip balm first thing in the morning and always use it before I swipe on my red lipstick.

The time has come for me to get my kite flying, stretch out in the sun, kick off my shoes, and speak my piece. —Harpo Marx

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.

Take breaks. Remember to breathe. Go at whatever speed feels most right to you.

If you give all your worry to one thing, soon you'll realize that's way too much and worry about it less, and you'll feel more in control of it for keeping it at the front of your mind, and that will help you worry less

Disasters make us aware that the life force within us needs tending daily. This is why we are here." – Dr. Anne Redelfs

Just as we do physiologically, emotional toxicity is best released daily. We have to regularly release old feelings and disturbing thoughts that are holding us back." --Dr. Anne Redelfs

Getting angry because you cannot will yourself to push through it at your old pace will sabotage the pace of healing. Patience gives you the grace to slow down and let your soul catch up in its own time and in its own way.

You are like a baby bird that has fallen out of the nest, too weak and fragile to fly back. You need to learn how to feed yourself soul vitamins so that you can regain your energy and the will to live fully.