Rebecca Stead Quotes

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.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

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

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

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

I think having pointers and having guidance from mentors is very important, but it never actually embodies what you go through. And if something doesn't feel good, why do you repeat it? If you feel good bemoaning an audition for a week, go for it. But if you feel better bemoaning an audition that didn't go very well for 30 minutes because you believe in the craft and the process, then I suggest you do that. And that's what I suggest to myself. The alternative is way too painful and destructive.

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.

It's not that I want to necessarily avoid my darker moments, but I don't capitalize them and put a crown on them and tote them around as the answer anymore.

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

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.

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.

The cognitive skills that underpin resilience, then, seem like they can indeed be learned over time, creating resilience where there was none.

I react to stress badly. I handle it better these days. But I'm a very straightforward person.

Some stuff happened outside of tennis, and it made me realize that you just have to think about yourself, just focus on yourself, and don't worry too much about the other things because they can change very fast from positive to negative.

I am more mature today, so I deal better with the mistakes than the many times when I locked myself away and wanted to be alone.

It's OK to feel pain and experience it. I'm not trying to fix myself. My suffering has given me so much.

When I wasn't doing well, I was too tough on myself but I truly tried to minimise it. So, I would always appreciate the fact that, things are not going to go well all the time.

I've really been working on the emotional and internal issues that made me eat in the first place. It's been a real journey.

I don't really let the pressure get to me.

When I stuff things down and avoid it or try to work too hard through something that needs to be addressed, that's when life slaps me in the face, and I get told. I got told to slow down.

If you're having a bad day the main thing on the mental side is realizing that I'm having a bad day and thinking about why and then just kind of re-prioritizing and saying, "I'm going to let myself have this bad day, but tomorrow I'm going to get back on track." That's pretty much it. We all have them. You do have to let yourself have them and then go within and figure out why you're having it and prevent it from happening again.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.'

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.