Quotes About Healing

The antidote to addiction is connection and love.

When I look up and see a star, I know my mom is there. She's with me all the time. It's a powerful connection.

Laughter is what connects pretty much all pain.

I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as much music as possible. The last girlfriend I had, when we broke up, I remember being in a room for days on days on days with my music cranked up, playing songs like Kanye's '808's & Heartbreak.' That playlist just was long!

When I went through my eating disorder, I never sought medical assistance. I created myths in my head about how I should get through things, so the idea that I could surround myself with truth and feel comfortable enough to speak mine allowed me to breathe.

The Gospels record that nearly everywhere the Savior went, He was surrounded by multitudes of people. Some hoped that He would heal them; others came to hear Him speak. Others came for practical advice. Toward the end of His mortal ministry, some came to mock and ridicule Him and to clamor for His crucifixion.

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

The truth is, it was my Nanna and Grandad who helped me get over my mum's death. Surrounding me with infinite, unquestioning love, they were classic kinship carers.

I spend a lot of time unpacking the pain surrounding my addiction - both my own and the pain I caused other people.

It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear.

Survival is nothing more than recovery.

We are called to care for those sickened by pollution, house those displaced by environmental calamities, and heal the spirits of those - especially our youth - who are disheartened by a world where human survival is now in question.

For black and brown people, caring for ourselves and each other is not a neutral act. It is a necessary and radical part of the struggle to create a more just society. Our healing and survival are essential to the fight.

We've always known that our bodies are capable of healing themselves under the right conditions: Diet and exercise improve our health. But there are also ancient genetic survival pathways in every living thing.

I have learned that music helps a lot of people survive, and they want songs that can give them something - I guess you could call it hope.

You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.

You survive cancer but you have still got the emotional baggage.

I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.

I literally couldn't chew anything for 3-4 weeks and survived on just mashed curd rice and liquid upma.

Life is about surviving loss.

I have survivor's remorse.

I grew up in a household with my mother, who was a Holocaust survivor. I very much understand the mentality that you cannot live in the past. You can't spend your entire life, or even portions of it, looking back and dwelling on things that have already happened. You have to move forward.

What does justice look like for a survivor? It'll mean different things to different communities.

I had been working with a community of survivors who had lost their relatives and were too scared to talk about it.