Quotes About Healing

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Nothing had been decided, but everything was solved. Nothing had been repaired, but everything was fixed. Nothing had been cured. Yet everything was healed.

minister, the physician.

She cried over the messed up messy mess of her life, over her parents' failures and her own shortcomings.

if the medicine we need is relationship, what if we surrendered to relationship with our trauma, with our inheritances, with our ancestors, with our bullshit, with our fears so that we could begin to make possible relationship with one another? what happens when we be with our inheritances, when we bow to them, when we thank them, when we bear witness to them, when we eulogize them, and then when we send them on their way?

I was grieving for Olivia, too.

Nostalgia is best cured via horse whipping.

Perchance, one day you wake in a tub of cold blood come warm. Then, will you let this whole forest of hurt love you?

It is the very parts we perceive to be not-so-good that need our love the most. As it is only in love that what is hurting or what has been marginalized can be embraced, felt and transformed.

Part of the process in healing from trauma, like recovering from addiction, is developing connection and support with others.

Understanding trauma and that we each respond to it differently will help us be supportive and nonjudgmental toward each other.

For some of us, it's safer to believe there's something wrong with us than to be aware of the reality of our lives.

It's the worst thing that could ever happen to a woman, and they know that. It's why it's their best weapon. But after months of healing physically, I'm going to accept that I'll never be the same. That's all right. I'm still strong. I'm just different. And to change is to live. To survive.

The child is not traumatized by a sexual event, per se; the child is traumatized by parental character pathology. Because

Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.

If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies.

Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.

Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.

Truth, that fair goddess who comes always with healing in her wings.

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

Conscious awareness is the source of our healing...Only when you say the truth can the truth set you free. This is not a negative process, but at times it is a difficult process.

Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.

Seeing and admitting the truth about ourselves, about our role in creating our own problems, and about how we relate to others is vital for healing.