Quotes About Healing

The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.

Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

Mental illness lives all around us every day. I've seen it in other family members, I've seen it in friends, and I've dealt with it myself with my own postpartum depression.

I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.

I did speak to a counsellor after hitting rock bottom. It really did help, talking to somebody that didn't know me and just pouring my heart out to them in a few sessions.

Music has empowered me through poverty, abuse, and mental-health issues.

Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.

I'd be lying if I said that I took it all very calm and cool when my 12-year-old marriage broke up. I did feel angry, bitter, sad, but I didn't let them consume me.

My father was actually controlling and abusive.

Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.

If you break your sternum or your ribs, you can still move. It's going to hurt, but if you can cope with it, you'll do it.

A lot of us as adults haven't learned how to cope with our feelings, deal with our anger or work through the pain of our childhoods.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.

Comedy is counseling.

I went on to become a drug counselor and then I became a mother, which is the biggest gift I've ever had.

I want all my pain to count for something.

What's wrong with being angry? There's a lot of stuff to be angry about. If you're angry, anger covers pain. I don't know if you can truly deal with pain.

I came back to Earth with a house full of COVID.

I broke my leg and cracked my pelvis.

I had five black eyes. I have a cracked rib. I have scars that are just amazing.

You don't have to limit yourself or feel that you've been limited by an act of cruelty.