Quotes About Self-care

The best thing we can do for our adult children is to get into recovery for ourselves and set them free to find their own way to recovery.

Codependents don`t just wake up one day saying I think I'll move over into maturity and mental health

More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the clutter on our desk. •

El alma es la que debe ocupar nuestros primeros cuidados, y los más asiduos, si queremos que la cabeza y el cuerpo entero estén en buen estado.

You must get yourself so organized that people can't find you and see you to talk with you," he advised. Besides, he "never thought talking to people helped them get well.

Strategy 8—Against Your Rest and Contentment He hopes to overload your life and schedule, pressuring you to constantly push beyond your limits, never feeling permission to say no (Deut. 5:15).

Whom then to credit? Whom to treasure? On whom alone can we depend? Who is there who will truly measure his acts and words to suit our end? Who'll sow no calumnies around us? Whose fond attentions will astound us? Who'll never fault our vices, or whom shall we never find a bore? Don't let a ghost be your bear-leader. don't waste your efforts on the air. Just let yourself be your whole care, your loved one, honourable reader! Deserving object: there can be nothing more lovable than he.

And by the way, showers. Look into them, Doug!

Happy birthday," she said. "And next time? Eat the stupid cupcake.

Dear girls, I can let anyone get hurt because in my world, my safety and well-being come first.

He also knows that a gun can't protect you unless you protect yourself mentally, emotionally, and logically. It's the punctuation at the end, not the paragraph.

And lowering your blood pressure by deep breathing or meditation—or even a healthy swearing session inside your closed car—has fewer side effects than any pill.

I'm not that girl who randomly meets a guy one night and has her life change. I wear cords and flannel shirts. I don't have the killer body like Tris or Caroline. Sometimes I don't wash my hair for three days and sometimes I don't floss.

I decided to give myself a Christmas present this year. I decided to spend the day only speaking to animals (real and stuffed), select humans as necessary so long as they weren't my parents or Langston, and a Snarl in a red Moleskine notebook—if he returned it to me.

and discover that family, like arsenic, works best in small doses . . . unless you prefer to die.

family, like arsenic, works best in small doses Ã¢â'¬Â¦ unless you prefer to die).

I'd probably long ago have gone seven kinds of crazy, one for each day of the week, if I didn't simplify my life in every area where I do have some control.

You don't need to like [a gun] to know you got to have it. I don't like gettin' a colonoscopy every five years, but I grit my teeth and drop my drawers and get it done just the same.

Never waste energy beating yourself up. Other people are always standing in line to do it.

would be good to have reached an age when she'd have the option of boozing herself into a sound sleep.

forgiveness isn't a gift we give the offender. It's something we do for ourselves.

The thing I've learned - and trust me, I'm no expert- is that forgiveness isn't a gift we give the offender. It's something we do for ourselves

I could have walked out at any time. I'm the one who turned a bind eye. I'm the one who chose to die a little with every one of his affairs, so no, bottom line: I choose not to hate him, If I have any anger, its directed at myself. I don't know why I waited so long to take care of myself emotionally and spiritually.

Loving myself meant eating, sleeping, and exercising—taking care of myself emotionally and physically.