Quotes About Healing

I did not want to impose my will on others. I wanted the healing processes to grow out of the patient's own personality, not from suggestions by me that would have only a passing effect. My aim was to protect and preserve my patient's dignity and freedom, so that he could live his life according to his own wishes.

Old wounds. They faded, but they never really went away, did they?

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.

Well, perhaps he's not my best friend, but I don't think he hates me anymore.

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?

The Uses Of Sorrow (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

Time, on its own, heals nothing.

Time, on its own, heals nothing. ? Mary Rakow, The Memory Room . (Counterpoint, August 31, 2004) Originally published April 1st 2002.

Do I grudge my lord the herb that will heal him, because another gathers it? No, let him be healed.

Then the pain of loss leaped out on me, like a knife in the night when one has been on one's guard all day.

Nunca he entendido cómo llegaste tan lejos. ?Drogas. Drogado de pies a cabeza.

Often in those two months I said to myself, If I live, I will wipe this time from my mind; I cannot even bear the memory. Yet now I turn to it. He is gone; and all times when he was there seem like lost riches.

If only the clouds would lift, and she could sit down and read, she knew that she would feel better at once.

For years the tears fell without touching the ground. On this night they hit the floor.

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

Time is a great restorer, and changes surely the greatest sorrow into a pleasing memory.

O time! thou must untangle this, not I; It is too hard a knot for me to untie. —Shakespeare, Twelfth Night People require different amounts of time for grieving.

There was a time when I was unable to get out of bed because my body, its muscles eating themselves away, refused to sit up. There was a time when the lies rolled off my tongue with ease, when it was far more important to me to self-destruct than to admit I had a problem, let alone allow anyone to help.

After a lifetime of silence, it is difficult then to speak.

Bear in mind you have a life to live. There is an incredible loss. There is a profound grief. And there is, in the end, after a long time and more work than you ever thought possible, a time when it gets easier.

It does not hit you until later. The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive. Frostbite does not hurt until it starts to thaw. First it is numb. Then a shock of pain rips through the body. And then, every winter after, it aches.

There are other kinds of damage, to the people in your life, to your sense of who you are and what you can do, to your future

For all its God language, the Twelve Step program isn't actually an attempt at religious conversion. Really, it just tries to bring us to a place of new spiritual understanding that allows us to live differently in this world.

The hands of his sadness close around my throat and I can't breathe. I have run out of the enormous love he needs to be all right.