Karen Bardsley 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.

Anxiety is a really crippling condition, and I suffer with it myself, and I feel for anyone who suffers from it. The way that I deal with it is try as much as possible to stay in the moment to not think about the past and not think about what's coming up in the future: to try and just seize the moment as much as possible.

If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.

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

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

Talking to my mental coach definitely helps. I talk to her every week. Yeah, I mean, she's been helping me a lot, too.

I don't torture myself.

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.

I try not to worry about things that I can't control.

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.

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.

You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't let it ruin your life. I'm actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don't, really. It's not like I'm trying to exorcise any demons.

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?

There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.

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'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.

My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

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

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

I try not to get depressed about stuff I can't do anything about.

Stress and worry, they solve nothing. What they do is block creativity. You are not even able to think about the solutions. Every problem has a solution.

I go as hard as I can when I'm anxiety-free.

If you start giving too much importance to pressure, you won't be in the present.