Quotes About Healing

For solace at this time of sadness and confusion, Marguerite turned to a source that would remain a refuge to her throughout her life: books.

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

But here's what grieving people wish others would understand: grief is incredibly, relentlessly lonely. It really makes a huge difference to be reminded that we are not forgotten, that our loss is on the radar of people around us.

It stops hurting so much when you realize how unconstructive hate is.

Hechos 3:19, los "tiempos de refrigerio" vienen de "la presencia de Dios".

Jesus is the only One who can expose and cleanse my sin and heal me from the inside out.

but I believed with all my heart that God was involved in some way and that He would do a "miracle." I would somehow be healed, perhaps lead many others to Christ in the hospital, and lots of "fruit" would be produced from the whole experience, etc.

This reality orientation is the positive intellectual climate in which the core propositions and events of the gospel live and breathe. It is a mentality in which people are liberated by verifiable truth to challenge tradition, question power, and fight for life and healing against death and decay.

In order to grieve—I needed to "unlearn" the way I learned to ignore my agony.

I feel more at peace with being angry than practicing forgiveness. That never was an honest emotion for me. It was always someone else's concept of what I should do.

I never learned how to process my own pain.

I had been conditioned to down play my own abuse,

Thomas just nodded his head in agreement, and then suggested I write a letter to myself as a child and address those painful issues.

I know you have been looking for someone to listen to you, to believe you, and no one helped; they all blamed you. You believe you are bad. That's not true!

It's okay to be angry. Your mother should not have allowed this to happen....

Trying to forgive all these years, I had suppressed my anger and memories because I couldn't forgive if I acknowledged my experiences

There's nothing you can do about your mother, but it's high time you took care of yourself. Do whatever is necessary for you to be okay. Don't let your mother pull you down any longer.

Stop digging.... Yesterday is dead and gone.... Try and forget.... Forgive and Forget.... Don't get worked up.... Anger corrodes.... Everybody lives with injustice at some time.... That's life!... They did the best they could.... Making mistakes is human.... Forgive! Only through forgiveness can you heal.... Forgive ... Forget ... Forgive ... Forget ... Forgive ... Forgive....

As though my self-esteem wasn't low enough from years of abuse, try as I might, I couldn't even get forgiving right!

For forgiveness does not resolve latent hatred and self-hatred but rather covers them up in a very dangerous way.

Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth.

My forgiveness had not solved my latent hatred or self-hatred.

Well," he said with a sigh, "psychology for years used to counsel to forgive. But we are beginning to recognize that it isn't always possible or even healthy to do that. I believe that sometimes it is important not to forgive, and to hang onto a healthy sort of rage at what happened,

I can't let her hurt me again. My pain it too great. I can't forgive her.