Karen McCarthy Quotes

A lot of times, I put my own personal health to the side, focusing on work or family or getting ahead. At the end of the day, you're just exhausted on your couch and haven't made that doctor's appointment, didn't make that phone call, and feel terrible.

Women don't take care of themselves because they take care of everybody else.

We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.

I think a lot of trainers are forgetting to take care of themselves and focusing only on their clients. You see it with doctors, nurses, and caretakers. If you put too much effort into only helping others, you are neglecting yourself, and your health is the only thing that makes it possible for you to help others.

We, as women, particularly if we have families, you know, we're taking care of children, we're taking care of, you know, our home, our husbands, we take care of everybody but ourselves. And it's really unfortunate.

These people that are in consuming jobs - you forget to do one thing. And that's to take care of yourself.

I used to tell moms that for the sake of their well-being they had to put themselves first. But I know now that's not always possible.

I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.

You can't just take care of everybody else all the time.

It's hard for me to take care of myself, let's put it that way. I am my last priority.

I spent years shaking the damage that comes with being burned by living near someone else's spotlight.

I don't want to be the guy who, 'Oh, he's falling apart. He's a little punchy. Maybe it's time to stop.'

At the start of my career - not just Me Too, which is not the totality of my career - I wish I would have known that you don't have to sacrifice everything for a cause. And that self-care and self-preservation is also a tool that is necessary to do the work.

I just don't believe you can have it all and be great at everything, something has to give at some point. You've got to give yourself a break sometimes.

I'm so bad at self-care.

I forget about myself and tend to concentrate too much on others.

The truth is, if we abuse ourselves with too much work and too little play, our body is eventually going to fight back, and the results can be terrible.

Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.

We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it

Being married, I've got so many things to do that I am the last to do things for myself. Taking care of my body has been difficult, but I am doing the best that I can.

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

I'm looking out for myself, but I'm looking out for my dad, too.