Quotes About Healing

I think I've been inspired by Chris and his ability to be raw and genuine and admit flaws and let it be whatever it is. That's something I'm trying to do, too, is just be real... That way ends up being very healing with people.

I was only ever briefly angry with my dad for leaving us. It happened shortly after his death, when things were at their darkest and the grief in me was raw and at its worst.

Ice, to me, is a magical healer. At night, watching 'Ray Donovan,' I'll put bags of ice on my shoulders, knees, and back. It's a miracle cure.

I learned about forgiveness, and I've reached out to others to make amends.

Losing a family member is extremely difficult for anyone to take. But the normal reaction is to want to get back to your work as soon as you can.

Once I got divorced, there was this knee-jerk reaction to get back in the action and date. I think there's something wrong in that.

Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.

People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.

I love reading books that can break my heart.

Having a baby makes me grateful that I work for a company that does give you four months' leave. And my heart breaks for women that don't get that time with their child. As a mom, you're just not ready to go back immediately - physically, you can't. You just need some time not only to bond, but you need some time to heal.

Heartbreak is a real thing.

Gallows humor is part of our coping mechanism. It's part of our grief process. If we don't know what else to do, we laugh. That's a very real thing.

If you've experienced cheating in a new marriage, the real work is not obsessively combing through all the details of what happened, but rather figuring out if your relationship is worth saving.

When you go through heartbreak, you just do the things that get you by. Eventually, you realise it's about making the most of life.

When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.

During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things would get better.

Experiences don't make us damaged goods; it's what we do with those experiences that matters.

I had a concussion I didn't get over for three years. I think that's why I'm goofy.

When I need to exorcise a demon, I grab whatever score is going to house the song I need to sing out of my system, and I sing it.

For me, the arts has always been sort of my saving grace.

He'd forgiven who he needed to forgive, let go of what he needed to, and accepted himself as he was. Archibald Alexander Leach, Cary Grant, and all.

I think we internalise a great deal. Music can draw that stuff out of even the hardest person.

In 2013, I went through a really great depression.