Quotes About Healing

I had lost relationships with my dad, my brother and sister and I was just like, you know what, this is definitely the time to just get it together and so that's what I did.

My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction... The music is what saved me. That's the only thing I can trust.

A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.

Day after day I prayed. More and more I remembered the days of her living, and less and less I dwelled on the tragedy of her dying. Gradually peace came to me, and with it a measure of acceptance.

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

The grief is not over, it will never be over. It still trips me up in unexpected moments, stumbling me all over again. What does it: a reminisce with Paul, the sight of a mate laughing so easily with their mum, a Klimt painting we both loved. Simple things. Two steps forward, one step back, righting myself and then not. But the moving forward is stronger, swifter now; the seam of melancholy more hidden. Yes, climbing back into the world. Firm.

The shame dies. Just like that, so DH Lawrence wrote. Shame, which is fear. AND judgement.

I watch myself, like some stranger, rise and march right over to sit beside my old enemy, because you tell me your plan for her includes something nicer than a lonely life.

Trauma is a memory hog, It gobbles up all available space in the brain, leaves little room to mark daily happenstances, or even routine injuries which are less than life-threatening.

The crashing sound of years lost shattered in her ears, and new fears emerged from the looking glass. Sometimes I wonder if she'll ever sing again.

I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.

When you lose someone, you get used to living day to day without them. But you'll never get used to the 10 second heartbreak." That's the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember…

I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.

I was afraid of becoming used to the sorrow that had grown like a gnarled tree inside me.

It'll never get well if you pick it.

And though you study medicine for a score of lifetimes, there will come to you people whose illnesses are mysteries, for the anguish of which you speak is part and parcel of the profession of healing and must be lived with.

The study of medicine was, in its own way, something to love in place of a missing family.

Los monarcas vienen y van, pero el mundo sigue necesitando médicos

An action from a confused and suffering being in the past doesn't represent what that being is forever; it is only an expression of that being's suffering. And if we cling to resentment over past hurts, we simply increase our own suffering.

The most important thing to remember is that we must live in the present, and if in the present moment we are still holding on to old wounds and betrayals, it is in this moment that forgiveness is called for.

Does our lack of forgiveness really punish them, or does it just make our hearts hard and our lives unpleasent.

As we walk the path of Refuge Recovery, we gradually uncover a loving heart.

A heart can break only so often until the spirit breaks with it.