What Does Anne Lamott Say About Self-care?

On TED Talks Daily, Anne Lamott says radical self-care is quantum. It radiates out from you into the atmosphere like a little fresh air, and it is a huge gift to the world. She contrasts it with the futile work of trying to save, fix, or rescue someone else, or to get another person sober. If people answer by asking whether she is full of herself, she says to smile like the Mona Lisa and make a cup of tea for both of you. Affection for your own goofy, cranky, annoying self is home, she says, and that is where world peace begins.