Quotes About Healing

She explains that siblings are often the least supportive of anyone because even though the same parent has also damaged them, they are often in so much denial that they are threatened by your attempts to recover

When I stopped seeing Thomas, he told me that I would be "recovering" for the rest of my life.

With his passing, it seemed the sun stopped shining on our family.

How do you forgive someone who has never asked to be forgiven; somebody who has never even acknowledged any wrongdoing, someone who continues to do the same thing? How do you forgive an offender and still protect yourself from re-injury?

It is my experience that you must heal in order to forgive.

One of the most dangerous things about forgiveness is that it undercuts your ability to let go of your pent-up emotions.

Forgiveness is not a commodity that can be handed out. It is a relationship that must be entered into. — Karl Rahner

To understand is to forgive, even oneself. —Alexander Chase

Ann said, "My father died when he was seventy-seven, still unable to forgive his mother.

To forgive without expressing anger or disappointment is to forgive from a position of weakness. •?Forgiving from weakness only invites more hurt. It never quite catches up with the pain.

Your mother has had a rough life," Grandmother pleaded her daughter's case. "You should feel sorry for her instead of making things tougher for her. Bill was mean and cruel and much worse than Ed. The problem with you Nancy, is you're not forgiving," she concluded.

I have since learned that forgiveness does not protect us from past, present and future abuse.

The only way for me to survive with some dignity and recapture a corner of my sanity was to shut down the compartment that contained the painful memories, the insults, and the lies.

When we have been betrayed in our most basic human relationship—and that trust is never restored—how can we learn to trust ourselves to respond appropriately to betrayal?

healing comes down to forgiving yourself—knowing you deserve to be respected, you deserve to be loved.

How do you "re-parent" yourself? Even if you know how to parent someone else—that doesn't mean you know how to parent yourself.

Sorrow will turn to stone unless you weep. I thought it would come before this. Weep it out.

It can change the way you feel about things," Eleanor reminded her. "A walk by the sea is always good for the soul.

It hurts my heart, too, sweetie, but you know what? Sometimes crying is a kind of cure. Sometimes that's what the body and the heart need to do. It's hard to watch, but it's not always a bad thing.

Music is one of the most efficient mood elevators we have. People in nursing homes, whether ambulatory or even bedridden, whether lucid or not, would be provided with great pleasure by your playing. Maybe they could even dream, return to the best times in their lives, when they were loved.

Music is one of the most efficient mood elevators we have. People in nursing homes, whether ambulatory or even bedridden, whether lucid or not, would be provided with great pleasure by your playing. Maybe they could even dream, return to the best times in their lives, when they were loved." Tears filled Sophie's eyes. "I've never heard you

This was excellent news. It had only been a few weeks since her attack so I hoped there would still be scars.

I tell them I am not at peace in spite of what I suffered, but because of it.

Does the hatred you feel ever disappear? Or is it something that never goes away... No matter how many times you try to erase it? What I have always feared the most... Is myself. Because I, too, have hatred inside me.