Quotes About Healing

It's a very proactive thing to be dealing with your darkness and getting it out of your system. So it doesn't have to be in your system.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

I'm still messed up and have all kinds of problems, just like anybody.

We come to church not to hide our problems but to heal them.

Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.

You can't un-have an experience. You can deny the experience; you can process it and try to get through it, but you can't change the fact that it happened to you.

The herbalist I met a few times - it was great - she gave me literature about the different processes that an herbalist would do to make medicines from certain herbs and things.

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

One thing I've heard that makes sense to me about grief is that there's this conception that it's a thing that you process, and then you're done processing it. But really it's not a thing that has an end, it's just what life is like now. You are living with this now, probably forever.

Music became my way of processing things and a way to gain confidence.

It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come.

There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.

We all battling different things. Me? I'm just able to channel that through my music.

Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.

I get things out of my system through my songs, but, because they can be about so many different things, it takes me a while to get through them emotionally.

Sometimes you have to let your life fall apart and let it come back together on its own and learn to care for yourself in a different way.

There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.

War affects people in different ways.

Sometimes it's difficult to laugh at certain things but comedy can help.

I lost my father when I was 11 and it was a difficult time for the entire family. Dealing with that loss has been a very long journey.

I see dog stories as an antidote to the dire news that nothing is ever going to get better.

When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.

Writing about feeling disconnected has enabled me to connect, and that has been the most lovely thing of all.

This is a place where you can go, that you can feel safe and look inside yourself and discover yourself.