Martha Beck Quotes

I said that love heals from inside.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or you'll become empty.

It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.

I'm focusing on healing lives and teaching people that they can heal - giving them tools to heal.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

When you gather up all the balls of life that you try to juggle, it is a very difficult thing to try to focus in on taking good care of yourself. But that's why God invented me - so I can come and teach and preach and make people laugh and give them some education so they can start liking themselves better.

To heal from the inside out is the key.

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Self-care is so much more than a beauty regimen or an external thing you do. It has to start within your heart to know what you need to navigate your life. A pedicure doesn't last, but meditating every day does.

Recovery is really important.

Sometimes you have to let your life fall apart and let it come back together on its own and learn to care for yourself in a different way.

The child in each of us must be nurtured - that often makes us the best.

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. 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.

Healing comes when we meet our wounded places with compassion.

We cannot change past events, no matter how painful, but we can always intend how we 'feel' about them and heal ourselves.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

I took the decision that everything I would post would be positive. If you say, 'Ahh, I feel terrible today,' and you spread that to the eyes and ears of millions of people, that's not good.

It's the love you have for yourself that's most important.

Self-care is the number one solution to helping somebody else. If you are being good to yourself and your body and your psyche, that that serves other people better because you will grow strong enough to life someone else up.

There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.

Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.