Regina Brett Quotes

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.

I'm learning what triggers me. What to stay away from. What I do like and what I don't like. To me, I've learned so much about myself that now I'm a stronger person. But I still deal with anxiety. Anxiety doesn't go away.

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

I'm giving life lessons and tips on how to take care of your emotional heart, because heart disease is the number-one killer in America.

When you're feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don't want to take care of yourself - and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.

I don't torture myself.

As women in general, I don't think we take the time to find ways to take care of ourselves.

I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best.

Just take care of yourself and eat right.

I think things hit me very hard, and I wish I had allowed things to roll off my back a little bit more.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

There's a way of dealing with hardships that are healthier than going out. That's what I've learned.

I'm not looking for pity, I'm really not, but I'm constantly uneasy and every day it is pretty much like getting up and going to war. Once I shift into the mindset of 'Yeah, you're alive. It's tough. Let's do what we can today,' it's easier.

I knew when I was diagnosed with cancer the only thing I could control was what I ate, what I drank and what I would think.

Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under pressure. The English tradition is to get a grip, whereas the American version is to get in touch with your feelings, to say: 'I'm a good person. Isn't it terrible when bad things happen to people like me?'

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.

Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.

I've found that a combination of therapy and medication, along with lifestyle choices like eating better and exercising regularly, helps me cope well with my anxiety.

While positive mental states may be associated with less stress and more resilience to infection, positive well-being might also be accompanied by a healthy lifestyle.

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.

Self-care doesn't necessarily mean jogging!

I try not to get depressed about stuff I can't do anything about.

I think we all have mechanisms that we use, each of us individually, to deal with pain that we've had or just dealing with life or whatever. Everyone's story is different, but we all have some kind of mechanism that we use to deal with stuff, that we create pretty young.