Quotes About Healing

Yazidis have gone through traumatic experiences, and without education, there is no future for the youth.

All of the characters on 'Doom Patrol' explore traumatic pasts, how to deal with those pasts, and how that affects their present and their future.

A loss of a great friend is traumatic and emotionally tough.

My childhood was so traumatic.

Divorce is horrible, no matter who instigates it. It's very traumatic.

I had no traumatic childhood experiences.

Writing about traumatic events in your life is actually much harder than being there the first time round because you have to relive all those moments and you know what the outcome is.

I wrote 'Road Less Traveled' to make myself feel better and process what I was going through.

Traveling to the Middle East and playing music for people on the street, for soldiers, for people in hospitals, and for people who lost their homes, and seeing people open up through the experience of music really restored my faith in music, in art, and in culture to change things.

My sister had some ailment and convulsions that she suffered from, and she had been sent to some place to go and get healed there. She was brought back and prayed for by those people. She recovered; in fact, she grew to be an evangelist in her own right, healing people and traveling around.

I had someone tell me recently that Black Dog had started this important conversation about mental health that had saved their marriage. It's really quite mad how these songs have travelled.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

My brother once lit his leg on fire. And after, when the fire was finally out, his leg was covered in third-degree burns. And we made the decision - or my parents did - not to take him to the hospital but to treat that at home with a salve my mother made of comfrey and lobelia.

We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.

When I'm injured, I eat everything - proper junk. That's the one thing about being injured so much, I get to treat myself.

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.

The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated.

I fight to prioritize black mothers and black children because we deserve to live in a world where our healing is centered and our lives are treated with dignity, respect, and care.

I wasn't creative when I was depressed. When my depression got treated, I was creative again.

In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.

We have never owned, as a country, the damage done not only to people who were enslaved but to future generations in which they were treated. I think that has damaged the future of many African-American people. Some have risen above it quite nobly, but it has impacted generations, and we have to be able to own that as part of the past.

I've had people send messages that said, 'I'm sorry how I treated you in high school.' It was just through kindness. I still think of the world the same way I did growing up. When I got hurt, I decided that this is how people are. But the world is changing, and even those people have changed. And I have. I need to let go, too.

Trying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there's more to healing than that; dealing with psychological, emotional and spiritual issues involved in treating sickness is equally important.