Quotes About Healing

My purpose as an artist is to heal the divided feminine in our culture. Well, okay wait, that sounds incredibly cheesy and like something a massage therapist might do at Esalen.

I don't know if speaking to a therapist is right for everyone.

I started taking my mental health seriously, really working with a therapist and a psychiatrist.

I used to think, 'Oh, I can fix him. I can be his therapist. I can be what he needs.' But what I've learned is that you can't take ownership for how they're feeling, no matter how badly you want to.

I feel like I'm like a country music therapist.

I am my therapist, and I analyze what's happening and if I'm being hurt in the process. The result is songs that are very emotional, very deep, although I try to write them generally so they won't alienate the listener.

On the song 'Buried Alive,' it's almost like the instrumental is a therapist.

I'm realizing that my childhood is not my daughter's, that I can't heal myself by any actions I take with her - and that it's definitely time for me to go back to my own childhood... with my therapist.

I see a therapist, I cry a lot.

I had a mini-breakdown and had to move back in with my parents. But then I got a great therapist and it saved my life.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage.

Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.

Once I went through therapy, it completely changed my life.

Music is my therapy.

Playing my drums is therapy.

Baking is therapy.

Work is therapy for the soul.

My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.

I think psychology still has a sway over everything we do, but music, in and of itself, is the therapy.

Writing is my therapy.

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.