Quotes About Healing

Mal haya ocasión, mal haya, 155 sin espadas y con lenguas, que son las peores armas, pues una herida mejor se cura que una palabra!

Don't let resentment and bitterness rob you of happiness. - Mr. Morrison, Humane Society volunteer

grieving is the beginning of your self discovery

People need to continue talking until they get enough understanding to be able to genuinely leave it behind.

Dead indeed is the heart from which the balmy air of the sea cannot banish sorrow and grief.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there's an arrow in your heart...

How can I be sure it won't happen again?" she demanded. "By letting your heart heal and being careful not to rush into anything. By finding a man who will treat you with the love and respect you deserve.

Some wounds are so great that the only way to survive is to lock them up in a little box and put them somewhere deep inside,

I'm sorry I laughed...I know it isn't funny for you. It was incredibly stupid of me to laugh. Does it hurt a lot anywhere? 'Not really,' I said. 'Only a bit in your soul?' 'Maybe a bit.' 'Let it sink,' he said. 'Just leave it. You can't use it for anything.

Joy, once lost, is pain

We think of death and loss as tragic twins, but in fact it is loss that hurts us.

Where does all the pain go once you're done with the healing?

Andrew Murray, escritor sudafricano del siglo diecinueve, dijo una vez: "El poder de la oración depende casi en su totalidad de nuestro entendimiento de a quién está dirigida y de lo que decimos".5 Cuando la vida nos hiere, eso es más importante que el hecho de llorar en los brazos de Dios como un niño que se mece en sus brazos, recordando que Él es el primero y principal Abba, el Padre.

It's sad when people break up.

See me, feel meTouch me, heal me.

I also hope this map will guide you to heal in a way that helps you become an unflinching source of kindness and self-compassion for yourself

As unsupported children, we have to dissociate because we are not able to effectively grieve.

Feeling is the antithesis of pain…the more pain one feels, the less pain one suffers" – Arthur Janov

The most expeditious way to get past an unpleasant emotional experience is to embrace it and to fully feel and express it.

When inward tenderness Finds the secret hurt, Pain itself will crack the rock And, Ah! Let the soul emerge. — Rumi

Those who are repetitively traumatized in childhood often learn to survive by over-using one or two of the 4F Reponses. Fixation in any one 4F response not only limits our ability to access all the others, but also severely impairs our ability to relax into an undefended state. Additionally, it strands us in a narrow, impoverished experience of life.

However, when we thoroughly vent our angry feelings about the past, feelings of forgiveness become more accessible. When we learn how to grieve ourselves out of abandonment flashbacks, we reemerge into a feeling of belonging to and loving the world.