Quotes About Healing

Sometimes when we're holding pain and it gets to be too heavy or goes too deep, we have to give in to it, let it knock us over and pull us all the way down. Once we hit bottom, we rest in a quiet place for a while. Then, when the pain eases and we're ready to face the world again, we come right back up.

It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives

You can haul the girl out of the trash, but you can never haul the trash out of the girl.

Momma had left this world and set herself free, and in doing so, she had set me free too. As much as I missed her and wished I could hear her laughter one more time, I believed she was out there in the big bright somewhere, watching me, cheering for me. Loving me.

It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty.

Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.

You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.

Every holy passage leaves a scar.

I am the heart that heals the stone

Six years is plenty long enough to soothe the tearing anguish of...death, but maybe no amount of time is enough to soothe something that is no longer there. Something like an emptiness that can never be filled because it's only a bit of space carved out of air.

Since most of us struggle with periods of self-hatred, bad body images, shame and confusion over sex and pleasure, I recommend having a hot love affair with yourself. Sexual healing begins by learning how to turn yourself on, discovering your sexual fantasies, and giving yourself an abundance of selflove and orgasms.

I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.

Some types of child abuse, notably sexual abuse, lead to the traumatized individual to fuse sexualization with affection, such that any positive relationship has strong sexual overtones.

The truth most families eventually discover is that no one can cure another person's addiction. Omly addicts can do that for themselves.

It is not okay to 'live and let live,' to let 'bygones be bygones,' to 'forgive and forget,' to let the 'past be the past' or any of the other clichés your family and friends will try to persuade you to forget about what happened and to move on. Try not to accept these messages.

As you recover, you will feel more conscious of your surroundings. Freed from the 'fog' of your pain, fear, and confusion, you will awaken and see the world revealed as never before. You will begin to observe things, especially yourself. You will be aware of what you do and why you do it. You will begin to observe your own behavior and attitudes.

You can avoid the issues from abuse for only so long. Sooner or later, the problems in your life cause you to either face it or go deeper into denial. Most of you will eventually be forced into admitting that it is indeed the sexual abuse that is the root of your problems. Even then, the tendency will be to 'forgive and forget' in the belief that by doing so the pain will be assuaged.

Children who feel unloved and unprotected are like a half-filled cup. They become incapable of 'filling up' because they have come to believe they are unworthy of love. They try to please others, give to others, and care for others in a desperate hope that they may make themselves worthy.

Even though no one else can give you what you missed as a child, this doesn't mean you are doomed to never receive it. There is one person who can give you what you missed on- what you so desperately need and desire. That person is you.

Unfortunately, you may have lost touch with this inner sense because of the way you were raised and by the messages you received to the contrary.

I wonder if the country will ever heal from the war?" ... "It won't be anytime soon. Maybe not even in our lifetimes.

I don't think you ever get over it, but you do get through it.

Life has many sorrows, but it can potentially hold Solace and Love as well.

Good things do come out of deep sorrow and great loss...at least in time.