Quotes About Healing

Know that you can move past things that have happened to you and that healing takes time. Take the lessons you learned in the past and hold them close, but move forward and try not to get trapped in what was.

Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence.

We all know how to focus on trauma. This is the struggle. We have the opportunity to respect our journey and focus on joy.

Everybody faces pain. Everybody has trauma.

I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well.

The trauma of South Asian people escapes the confines of our own times. We're not just healing from what's been inflicted onto us as children... it is generations of pain embedded into our souls.

The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.

They say that love is blind, but it's trauma that's blind. Love sees what is.

People who have gone through trauma need help with logistics in the short term.

We have a pandemic of childhood trauma.

I'm grounded in joy; I'm not grounded in the trauma anymore.

The big 'Aha!' moment is that the trauma never goes away.

If you have suffered from trauma, one of the most healing things that can happen to you is being seen. Being seen doesn't have to mean that someone actually lays their eyes on you, although that certainly helps.

I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

When I started talking to my therapist, we hit the source of my PTSD and the trauma that came from the things that occurred when I was younger - issues with my father and how that may have affected me.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

There's a lot of black men running around with crazy trauma scars, and they should be going to therapy. They should be sitting down and talking to people. But they can't. If you've got the armor of being a man, and the armor of being a black man, that hyper-masculine thing can make those scars deeper.

To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.

I've always been drawn to the hard story, the trauma, because I think art can turn it around.

It's hard to talk about childhood trauma. It's hard to talk about depression. It's hard to talk about anxiety. And we thought - I wonder if we just open up our subconscious and the things that we think about and hide from people every day and just let them come out in some of these lyrics.

Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.

You suffer from trauma from the things that you've been through because you come from a poverty-stricken background. There are a lot of us like that.

We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we're not careful, it'll overtake us, and we'll self-destruct.