Sofia Helin Quotes

I needed a break... from myself.

I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It's about your life, the quality of your life.

Therapy's like going to the gym.

There was a point where I was making four movies a year. I was always on a set. I had no stories to tell. I was feeling empty. My life was just luggage and hotels and from set to set, from character to character. And one day, I said, 'And where is mine?' You know? And the moment I started to feel that fear, I stopped and I slowed down.

You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.

I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.

Being down makes you think who you are.

I had been on what seemed to be a hiatus to the outside world, but I was actually working very hard on my health, my emotional health, and my business.

I have therapy. Every day. I read a bit of Freud; I try to be a better person. Every day.

I hollowed out, stopped listening to music, never picked up a pencil, started slipping into old habits. All of the vibrancy I used to see became de-saturated. Lost Slowly, once I had done enough damage to myself, I began to climb out of the hole. Clean. When I made it out, the only thing left inside was the voice, and for the second time in my life, I no longer ignored it - because it was my own.

I thought I had to be perfect. I would often make choices I thought would make everyone else happy. I lived at a pace that was "good for my career," whether it was good for me or not. I have learned how important it is to check in with myself and listen, really listen.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

It's incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It's about understanding myself. Sometimes I'll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It's become part of my routine.

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.

There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

I'm just like anybody. I have my ups and downs.

I love therapy. I swear by therapy. I couldn't exist without therapy.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.