Quotes About Wellness

Unfortunately, deprivation diets don't work for three reasons: 1) Our body fights against them; 2) our brain fights against them; and 3) our day-to-day environment fights against them.

If you help a person to get better by erasing that person, what kind of a job have you done?

Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.

I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.

I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it.

I tried the Atkins diet in the Seventies when pregnant with my son, as I didn't want to pile on the pounds. Now, so long as I'm healthy, I don't care what my scales say.

Somehow among all our use of antibiotic medicine and antibacterial soap our souls are becoming sanitized as well — don't let it happen to you!

I've tried just about every crazy diet you can imagine.

What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed.

Allowing the momentary hijacking of our sense of self by random acts of fear or hate—call it guerrilla racism—is bad for us. Literally. The high rates of hypertension, stroke, and heart disease among African-American males bear brutal witness to the problem. Do not volunteer yourself as a casualty. Let those with the illness, those who caricature and misrepresent you, be the ones consumed.

We can now prove that large numbers of Americans are dying from sitting on their behinds.

Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.

Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.

Balance is the core of health. We feel and function best when our body's systems are in balance, and when we're in balance with friends, family, community, and nature.

When we get back into balance, we feel better. Relief of distress—getting back into balance—activates the reward networks in the brain. We feel pleasure when we get back into balance—from cold to warm, thirsty to quenched, hungry to satiated.

In older children and adults massage has also been found to lower blood pressure, fight depression, and cut stress by reducing the amount of stress hormones released by the brain.

We have to take care of ourselves so we can bring our best selves.

When you have friends, family, and other healthy people in your life, you have a natural healing environment. We heal best in community. Creating a network-a village, whatever you want to call it-gives you opportunities to revisit trauma in moderate, controllable doses.

Physical well-being and your emotional health are deeply connected.

Balance is the core of health.

it's especially regulating if you can walk in nature. The sensory elements of the natural world bathe us with their own regulating rhythms.

if you have experienced trauma but haven't excavated it, the wounded parts of you will affect everything you've managed to build.

She said that until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. The wounds will bleed through and stain your life, through alcohol, through drugs, through sex, through overworking. You have to have the courage to pull out the wound and begin to heal yourself. This is the lesson I hope everyone carries with them from our conversation, too.