Lindy Booth Quotes

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.

People like to talk a lot about me, about how I have anxiety or social disorders. I'll admit to anxiety, but it has nothing to do with media or being in front of a camera or being around people. It has to do with dealing with the sparring that I'm going to have or the workouts that I'm going to have from day to day.

People like to talk a lot about me, about how I have anxiety or social disorders. I'll admit to anxiety, but it has nothing to do with media or being in front of a camera or being around people. It has to do with dealing with the sparring that I'm going to have or the workouts that I'm going to have from day to day.

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 was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.

I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.

I used to get out of bed sometimes and feel depressed and watched a lot of reruns on TV to get over it. I should have allowed myself to be a little more human and not worry about trying to be a superwoman.

I've learned to set boundaries and know when to say, 'I just need to rest.' I'm good at listening to what my body's telling me.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

After 'Oz,' I've learned how to check out and not let that stuff get in.

My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

I want to be good all the time, so I feel anxious. But if you weren't like that, you'd be dead, wouldn't you? If you went out happy down the road, la la la. I've never been like that. I don't want to be.

Obviously I have a capacity for feeling extreme anxiety, and there are people out there who don't. I'm to some extent rather jealous of them.

I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.

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

I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

I learned certain exercises to help me cope, to get myself in tip-top mental shape to deal with auditions and rejection.

Self-compassion is how we recover.

You have to believe yourself to be the centre of the world, or you believe nothing. You start to treat yourself very badly.

The only way I've been able to keep my sanity is to pull back when I feel like it's time to pull back.

My book, 'The Total Me-Tox,' is about self-care and self-love and how they lead to success and empowerment. My goal is to encourage women to be their best selves in a warm, friendly way. Think human, not superhuman.