Quotes About Healing

On the second Thursday of the month, Mrs. Dombrowski brings her dead husband to our therapy group.

We are battered and broken, but we're all small miracles.

As much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memories that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded.

It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice. Two

A human heart breaks harder when it's dropped from a greater height.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. —WALLACE STEGNER, THE SPECTATOR BIRD

Jack could feel the fissures beginning even now, the hard shell he'd promised to keep in place so that no one, ever, would get close enough to hurt him again.

Words, he knew, could scar.

Why bring up something that hurts so much, if it's not going to change anything?

To find out a heart she'd believed irrevocably broken had somewhere along the way been fixed.

The thing that's important to remember about PTSD is that a traumatic event affects different people differently.

Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

Could you forgive someone if she hurt you and the people you love, if she truly believed she was only trying to help? I

Amnesia was one way for the mind to protect itself from reliving something that would otherwise break you apart.

Scars are just a treasure map of pain we've buried too deep to remember.

We are all just canvases for our scars.

When you fall in love, it's because you find someone who fills all your empty spaces. When you fall out of love, it's because you realize that you're both broken.

My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?"  Ã¢â'¬Â¢

Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, You're not important enough to have a strangehold on me. It's saying, You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future

you eventually make the decision to divide your life in half—before and after—with loss being that tight bubble in the middle. You can move around in spite of it; you can laugh and smile and carry on with your life, but all it takes is one slow range of motion, a doubling over, to be fully aware of the empty space at your center.

On the other side of the curtain, two separate wars were being fought. One was to save the life of a women who'd been beaten to near death by her husband. The other was to allow her child to have any kind of a life at all.

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise? —William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower

Don't blame yourself; this isn't your fault

LOSE someone you love, there is a tear in the fabric of the universe. It's the scar you feel for, the flaw you can't stop seeing. It's the tender place that won't bear weight. It's a void.