Quotes About Healing

Two deeply emotionally wounded people cannot form a healthy relationship. They may struggle, compromise, and even stay together, but until they each heal their own wounds, the relationship will always be a struggle.

Where were you when the world stopped turning

Tertullian recounts the narrative of Jesus, whose labors (unlike Hercules's) did not include killing, capturing, and stealing43 but who instead kept a low profile, who bore reproaches, who would not hear of forcing people, who ate at anyone's table, who declined to call for massive angelic intervention, who rejected the avenging sword, who healed the servant of his enemy, and thereby "cursed for all time the works of the sword.

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

ANGER IS A DESTRUCTIVE soul-trait. Just as scurvy is a disease of the body, so is anger a disease of the soul. —ORCHOT TZADDIKIM (1540)

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.

There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

For who can stop the heart from breaking?

Simply put, reconciliation is the idea that things and people that are broken can be put back together.

Some of those I help are afflicted with what I call soul loss, which is what happens when the soul gets fragmented and a part of it does not know how to return to the body, or realizes it's not safe to return.

My walk through the flames permanently scarred my face, but it was the hidden scars that disabled me even more than the obvious ones.

Forensics had taught her that scars left tissue much tougher than skin.

America's a very traumatized society.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

Swallow it down (what a jagged little pill)

The text's construction of an ailment as the product of a conflict with supernatural beings...renarrates the suffer's experience in martial and heroic terms. If recited to victims of the illness, the charm had the potential to help them renegotiate their self-perception.

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

After Rilo Kiley broke up and a few really intense personal things happened, I completely melted down. It nearly destroyed me. I had such severe insomnia that, at one point, I didn't sleep for five straight nights.

My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.