Quotes About Healing

You showed me there is something in the forest to cure most anything that bothers you.

Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.

This is why working with our most deeply held resentments and grudges can bring about the greatest change, because it is here that we start to deconstruct the scaffolding upon which all our other points of view are based.

Never deny your scars. Wear them proudly for they attest to your immense courage and strength.

I guess you could say my mind was injured and that's why I didn't play.

There were just little things and they still made me sad, but I become better at staying in my sadness and at resisting the urge to chase it away.

It was as if I'd been running from my past, my story, my pain, and I'd run smack into myself again," she says.

That's when Kat realized that "I had let go of my pain, my story of loss, my victimhood, the grief and fear and sense of failure and shame and guilt from so much abandonment. I had to say good-bye to all the negative emotions that I had embodied over the years. Because when I let go, I was greeted by a new, deeper layer of wholeness, a sense of inner freedom.

Ultimately, when you embrace the process of healing despite your Adverse Childhood Experiences, you don't just become who you might have been if you hadn't encountered so much childhood suffering in the first place. You gain something better: the hard-earned gift of life wisdom, which you bring forward into every arena of your life.

Or, in truth, eventually, though I still noticed, the callouses on my spirit prevented wounds (p.75).

I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards.

Grief never ends Ã¢â'¬Â¦ But it changes. It's a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It is the price of love. —AUTHOR UNKNOWN

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue. —Eugene O'Neill My

Nursing care comes in many forms. Sometimes it is the ability to make someone feel physically comfortable by various means. Other times it is the ability to improve the body's ability to achieve or maintain health. But often it is an uncanny yet well honed knack to see beyond the obvious and address, in some way, the deeper needs of the human soul.

Nurses are the heart of healthcare.

Eran extraños los caminos del corazón. Uno podía pasar años habituado a una pérdida, resignado, y después, con un pensamiento casual, el dolor volvía a la superficie, agudo y desnudo como una herida reciente.

Strange the workings of the heart. One could go on for years, habituated to loss, reconciled to it, and then, in a moments unwary thought, the pain resurfaced, sharp and raw as a fresh wound.

Worry never helped anything, so why turn to it during times of need? It won't nurture or heal you—quite the opposite, actually. It's so much better to put the effort into something creative as a way to quietly meditate through positive action. Create, create, create!

Life reflects our painful past over and over until we learn another way and consciously heal.

I forgive you. I release you. I hold no unforgiveness back. I am free and you are free.

Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us.

Seine Knochen schmerzten. Keiner hat ihm gesagt, dass Trauer ein Schmerz in den Knochen ist, in jeder Zelle des Körpers.

Die Jungen verzogen sich beeindruckt, und Angelika verband Lottes Wunde mit Ahornblättern, weil Lotte es so aus Indianergeschichten kannte. Von da an war sie Angelikas Leibwächterin.

What he didn't know was that he always would and that in all those important moments that were yet to come to pass in his life, there would be a searing wound. Over time the wound would grow smaller, but it would never disappear.