Quotes About Healing

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside yo. —Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks On the Road (NOT Maya Angelou, NOT I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. (NOT Maya Angelou, NOT I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)

Sorrow dogged by sorrow is in mah heart.

Those who love us never leave us alone with our grief. At the moment they show us our wound, they reveal they have the medicine. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" is a perfect example of this.

the nobility of a soul that has suffered to the point almost of erasure, and still it struggles to be whole, present, giving.

Life, inexhaustible, goes on. And we do too. Carrying our wounds and our medicines as we go.

I was an abused kid.

I grew up in a terrible home of abuse and I didn't realize I was in a home of abuse.

When we focus on our pain, our ache deepens.

There were country songs I connected to when there was pain, when I saw things my family were going through. It was my way of acknowledging I wasn't OK: music tapped on the door; I could work out these emotions by singing.

People will pass and I'll connect with them and they actually won't be actively involved in their family's lives.

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

I've triumphed over addiction.

Whether you think you're jacked up or not, we're all broken people, and until we can admit that, we're not going to progress.

I am an alcoholic. It took me a long time to admit that to myself. It took me a long time to admit it to my family, but I am.

Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain.

Broadchurch' has always been about the impact of crime, on all those affected.

I try not to cry in front of people that might get very emotional. I try to cry by myself. When I'm in a comfortable place, I don't hold anything inside. I just let it out, and I feel better afterwards.

I used to fight with hate. There's been a lot of aggression in my past growing up and stuff. That's because I was hurt myself.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

Break-up albums are the best kind.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

In every family, people fight, don't talk and then make amends.

Actually doing a song, going to the studio, and just getting out on paper your anger makes you feel a little better sometimes.