Quotes About Healing

Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.

These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.

Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having some sort of emotional trauma, you need to find a person to talk to about it who says, 'This is quite normal; it's fine.'

Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.

You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But for me, I think I sought out the drama. That's why I like doing what I do.

Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen.

Trauma and pain and suffering can be the very thing that dislodges a person from themselves both in awful ways and larger ways that force one to reckon with one's own life.

Long before I ever got incarcerated, I should've been able to access services that help me deal with the grief and the loss of my son, that help me deal with the trauma, the abuse that I experienced as a child.

All I treat at the hospital is trauma survivors.

People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting.

My generation has to deal with how to overcome a trauma, how to overcome destruction, and how to tell the truth to the next generation.

It's very important to understand how the trauma of a life drives the music to really mean something.

The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.

It's during dream sleep where we start to actually take the sting out of difficult, even traumatic, emotional experiences that we've been having. And sleep almost divorces that emotional, bitter rind from the memory experiences that we've had during the day.

A break-up between couples is traumatic for everyone.

I learned a lot about a traumatic situation and what it does to you. It really brings you closer to your family and your loved ones.

Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.

Anything traumatic in my life I've always dealt with through jokes and comedy.

Katrina silenced me for two years. I wrote a 12-page essay on my experience in Katrina, and that's it. I didn't write anything for, like, two, two and a half years after Katrina hit because it was so traumatic.

I blacked out my childhood after a string of traumatic events in my late adolescence.

Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.

When you have a traumatic experience, you look at your mindset.

Divorce is one of the most destructive, emotionally traumatic experiences a human being can go through, no matter if you're the instigator or the recipient. It's hard, and it hurts, and it takes a long time to feel normal again.

From any traumatic injury, you're going to experience a lack of confidence. There's a whole process you have to go through to break free of that.