Quotes About Self-care

It's stressful to be a parent. It's stressful to be a person. But I've found that even in the most difficult moments, on the most challenging days, I can usually reach for a book and feel lifted up, returned to myself. On days when I've felt as though I have nothing left to give to my kids, I've been able to sit next to them and open a book. We start reading, and the world looks different.

But I have learned that love is the one area where women should give themselves a break and cut bait. Men are better at that—if a guy isn't feeling great about the relationship, he will leave and not look back. As women, we're more analytical and more accommodating. We tend to hang in there and try harder. But if you're with a dude who's texting other girls, bye-bye.

Fasting is the greatest remedy, the physician within.

Skin care. Seriously. If you take nothing else from my story, receive this: Skin care is sacred. Most women who did coke back in the 1990s looked beat by the mid-aughts. That was a strong deterrent for me. I won't say I never tried it, but I wasn't about to sacrifice my complexion for it. Same with cigarettes. You may as well hit yourself in the face with a shovel.

One sign that I am violating my own nature in the name of nobility is a condition called burnout. Though usually regarded as the result of trying to give too much, burnout in my experience results from trying to give what I do not possess-the ultimate in giving too little! Burnout is a state of emptiness, to be sure, but it does not result from giving all I have: it merely reveals the nothingness from which I was trying to give in the first place.

self-care is never a selfish act-it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others. Anytime we can listen to true self and give it the care it requires, we do so not only for ourselves but for the many others whose lives we touch.

By surviving passages of doubt and depression on the vocational journey, I have become clear about at least one thing: self-care is never a selfish act-it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.

the movements that transform us, our relations, and our world emerge from the lives of people who decide to care for their authentic selfhood.

You mustn't take any notice of what I'm saying when I'm talking to myself. It's only a bad habit we fall into when we're solitary and we always say the worst to ourselves.

Being a martyr is highly overrated.

Some wounds need to be pricked so they can drain. Others just need to be left alone.

She's a good person, but she is a weak person, too. She can't take care of anyone else because she's too busy taking care of herself." I

Don't ever delude yourself into thinking that you should have the ability to stay serene no matter how you are treated. Your serenity comes from the knowledge that you have a fundamental right to a nurturing environment and a fundamental right to affirm your boundaries.

If the spell can't be broken, if you are with a Spellbound person who will not change, your spiritual, if not your physical survival may depend upon your escaping.

and by acting in her own best interests she relieves her feelings of inadequacy and regains her natural State of Personal Power.

acting to protect herself, the partner protects her own spirit and regains the security of her natural State of Personal Power.

I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.

All animals must have the basic circuitry for self-care, or they will fail to survive long enough to reproduce. In the evolution of the mammalian brain, the range of myself was extended to include my babies .

Boundaries are limits where you are not being taken advantage of in an unfair manner.

It's your right to change your mind. What was possible when you agreed to something might not be possible anymore. This is normal in a world where things are constantly changing. It's a shame to inconvenience someone, but you have to look after yourself.

Finally, one great benefit of mastering "no" is that you give yourself so much more time and energy to pursue what you really care about, i.e. all those things you can say a hearty and resounding yes to!

Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You're responsible for its consequences, you're responsible for treating it. But Michael, you're not responsible for causing it.

There's peace to be found in doing something for yourself.

These were bad memories, but over the years I had brought them out and handled them so often there was hardly a sharp edge left to them.