Gail Sheehy Quotes

A lot's riding on 'Dune,' and my friends in Seattle realize what's happening if I freak out a bit. They accept whatever I happen to be, and they tell me when I'm slipping out of Kyle. They call me the 'God Emperor of the Universe.'

My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.

My problems aren't so different from anybody else.

People can be cruel, but that doesn't mean you have to take it home, wrap yourself up in it and wear it.

I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.

Remember that it's okay to get help, and it doesn't make you weak.

For so many career women who are also mothers, our own well-being comes last. But when you take the time to make your health a priority, other parts of your life will fall into line.

How do you support someone with cancer? How do you ask for the help you need?

I have to say I have an amazing therapist. She's my best friend for life. She's taught me how to balance everything out.

I am fortunate that I have a good support network who I felt I could say, 'Hey, I need to find out why I am speaking like this,' and they could find out who I needed to speak to.

Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.

It's very hard to balance being there for somebody else and taking care of yourself.

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This is so not for me. I would rather talk to one of my girlfriends.' I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much. I have young children, and I'm just pretty much crazed.

The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

As women in general, I don't think we take the time to find ways to take care of ourselves.

Googling me, you talk about being depressed. First of all there's 18 websites that predict my early death.

By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.

Self-care is the number one solution to helping somebody else. If you are being good to yourself and your body and your psyche, that that serves other people better because you will grow strong enough to life someone else up.

You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.

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

I'm a woman trying to balance family, work and friends like so many others out there.

For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I denied that it had affected me, and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured.

Like every mom, you try to juggle, but I also want people to know that you don't have to be a superhero. I'm not a superhero; I have a team of people who help me. I have a great family support system.