Quotes About Healing

For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Forgiveness has an uncanny way of bringing incredible good out of incredibly bad situations.

I feel like I've had a lot of painful situations that I intentionally delete from my memory.

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

I sort of look at music as helping me get through situations.

I don't see any harm with coming out and talking about your life and talking about problems and talking about things that happened when you're past certain situations.

I've been in situations before where something was going on, and that's the only way you can kinda cope with it is to write about it.

Sometimes you need other people to embody situations so that you can talk about things that for you are important. And I think that being able to hope for the future is what builds in us the strength to just get rid of things that, in the past, can hurt.

I don't have resentments towards anyone I played with or to the guy who bullied me in the sixth grade. I've worked through it.

I broke my sixth vertebrae.

The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you.

You need to be emotionally ready for a baby, and the best way to do that is to clean skeletons from your own closest. Deal with the baggage of your childhood, or you'll just pass it on to your kid.

I ripped all the cartilage out of my hip in a water ski jumping accident. I am a bit accident prone.

Home is where I shed my skin.

I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.

I think a breakup can be the beginning of a friendship. That's not me trying to make everything OK - it's me saying, "No, we love each other. Let's not pretend we don't."

I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life

It doesn't matter how old you are, there is a little child within who needs love and acceptance.

Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.

One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.

If there is a panacea, or cure-all to life, it is self love.

My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love and a long break from each other

Allow love to fill the places where anxiety now resides.

There is no balm of Gilead, No salve, no soothing ointment To stay the pain of one who's had In love a disappointment-- Unless it be that healing lotion Of fixing on a new devotion.