Martha Beck Quotes

I am president and do not have the right to give in to emotions. I have bad moods, very bad moods, but I never feel despair.

Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.

I run skills-building programs focused on healthy risk taking, failure resilience, and self-care for undergraduates around the country.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

I've always been a very passionate, sometimes overly emotional person. Sometimes things affect me more than they should.

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.

I react emotionally to everything!

Having a thick skin doesn't mean that you're hard or harsh. I was lucky because I was born with a thick skin. That doesn't mean that things don't bother me, but you have to keep it in perspective.

I'm very emotional. I do feel stuff, for better or worse.

I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.

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

We need to know how we are feeling. Mindfully acknowledging our feelings serves as an 'emotional thermostat' that recalibrates our decision making. It's not that we can't be anxious, it's that we need to acknowledge to ourselves that we are.

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

I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just didn't work out. My mind, my body wouldn't let me.

My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

I am mentally strong, but physically I'm constantly unwell. I internalise a lot of things, and if something stresses me or disturbs me, I don't talk about it and make myself sick with it.

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

I think I'm probably a very sad man wrapped in a very joyful package, and I think I'm very resilient, and I think I'm quite generous, sometimes to a fault. And I'm very bad with money, but I don't see that too much of a flaw.

People who fail to use their emotional intelligence skills are more likely to turn to other, less effective means of managing their mood. They are twice as likely to experience anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and even thoughts of suicide.