Laura Whitmore Quotes

I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.

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.

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

Every time I do an interview, it's like serious therapy. But real therapy isn't something that I'd ever have. I feel fortunate that mentally everything is functioning well.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

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.

I try to take my emotional pulse more now, to recognize when I need to go scream and cry for 20 minutes and then come back to center. Allowing yourself that time, it's a gift.

What's going on in my life, I never bring it to the basketball court.

I have been dealing with illness and its manifestations since I was a teenager, and I think that gives me a very healthy respect for the things in life we can't control.

I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable.

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

A lot of women don't know how to vent and deal with emotions.

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.

I should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about.

And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

My feeling on therapy is it's a luxury, and if you're fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life, then that's fortunate and you should go for it.

My YouTube channel is kind of a library of all my issues I've lived with. To process it emotionally, it's been good and bad.

I call my therapist every other day. It's not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it, name it, let it go.

I myself have been in therapy. Repeatedly.

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

Dealing with chronic anxiety has taught me to better understand the nuances of mental illness and the very individual nature of it.

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.