Quotes About Healing

Thou are boot for many a bruise, And healest many a wound; In our Lady's blessed name, I take thee from the ground.

Your peace won't begin after you heal, but when you agree to heal.

And yet, I also understood the need for this journey. To simply say to myself or anyone else, "I am forgiven" or "I forgive" could not shift my past karmic energy as well as walking the Camino. I was walking myself out of trauma and grief and anger and shame and righteous indignation and feelings of worthlessness and over-thinking and every other faulty human perception that blocked the truth of my being from shining through.

Real healing begins in life, and real awakening starts to happen when we stop living through emotion and start living through love.

If we think of our life as a journey [...] we don't want to move into our future lugging along the heavy baggage of our past. One way to lighten the load is to work on forgiveness and acceptance.

P.S. If you have addictions, not only do they ruin your sixth sense, they ruin everything else as well. Keep in mind that as you reach for higher ground, it's necessary to leave the swamp. Before you can go one step further, you must be honest and admit you need help. Then get it. It's time.)

just how it had been painfully answered. By not being married, I was now free to focus on healing me. That was my gift in all of this. I was determined to accept it.

was now being asked by my soul to become fully and uncompromisingly self-loving for the first time in my life. It had long been my prayer. Divorce was

Bad vibes are just missed opportunities to love, understand, and communicate effectively. So pray for healing—then promptly leave. As you do so, surround yourself with the most loving and kind thoughts possible. Send caring thoughts to all approaching hostile forces—because they need it.

Note the difference in the quality of thoughts that drift into your awareness as you mentally elevate your airwaves. Also, see if what floats into your awareness adds to the quality of your life. It's pretty simple: If you want inspiration, think inspiring thoughts. If you want to heal, broadcast healing thoughts. If you want to be creative, broadcast creative thoughts. If you want love, broadcast loving thoughts. And if you want to live in a higher way, think higher thoughts.

A storyteller's form of healing [is] being a counselor, and healing people with ideas, with stories and kind, loving guidance.

The way to get rid of these unhappy campers is to become responsible for your body by giving it rest, proper food, and downtime. In addition, a good Epsom-salt bath works wonders for clearing your energy field and cleanses you of what's not yours. Put two cups of Epsom salt in a hot bath and sit and soak the psychic pollution out of you.

It may not feel easy, and your inner child may still feel scared, but the minute you break free of this fear and articulate your true feelings, you reclaim your spirit's power. When you speak from the heart—your true Self—with courage, conviction, and calm, any psychic hold from the past is broken and you quickly reconnect to your inner voice and get back into a harmonious flow with your spirit.

There were two big lessons to be learned in all of this: first, the pain of the past is unfortunately not so easily stripped away, and second, not to allow anyone ever again to take a literal or figurative whack at me.

the healing power of letting go. I've had to let go of my anger and hurt.

Paris finally woke me up from the poison apple spell that lifetimes of self-rejection had put me under, causing me to desperately search for authentic love

I know that Goddess ritual, insofar as it generates reverence for and celebrates that which is female, which is us, is fiercely empowering, and that her image in our minds—images of ourselves as deity—is necessary as a blueprint for a more authoritative mode of being in the world. The Goddess is a metaphor for our own and all women's creative, healing, transformative powers, a representation of our inner selves.

Honestly, shopping beats therapy, anytime. It costs the same and you get a dress out of it.

Sometimes I hope I'm building up a stockpile of missing laughs, and when I've recovered, they'll all come exploding out in one gigantic fit that lasts twenty-four hours.

You know what Hans told me last week? she says as I open the door of my fitting room. He told me to write down a list of everything I wanted to say about that women-and then tear it up. He said I'd feel a sense of freedom. Oh right, I say interestedly. So what happened? I wrote it all down, says Laurel. And then I mailed it to her!

A divorce is like a controlled explosion. Everyone on the outside is OK.

grief is long and messy and horrible—but it's not an illness. And you cope how you cope. There's no 'well' about it.

You don't just get over it. And it doesn't make any difference if you're supposedly a grown-up. It never goes away.

It was about how you have to be strong to break free from abuse and not constantly measure yourself against toxic people but stand strong and distinct like a healthy tree. Not some stunted, falling-over, co-dependent victim tree. Or whatever.