Quotes About Healing

Wounds, I think, are never confined to a single skin but reach out to rasp us all.

There's no room in a small town for grudges.

But the burns weren't the worst of what that fire did to Dad. It took away his easy smile and booming laugh. It turned him quiet. Some days Dad barely talked at all. He'd get

This demotion of the exalted role of the Divine Feminine and the role of women in spirituality is nothing less than a horrible nightmare that Western Society has been experiencing for a very long time. It is the wound that will not heal, as spoken of in the Arthurian Romances.

Too often, people carry around so much pain in their hearts, that they surround their hearts with an impenetrable wall.

You might reflect on how a physician, in order to help an individual heal themselves, will sometimes cut into the individual's body and perform procedures which in any other context would be considered life-threatening.

surest remedy for the male disease of self-contempt is the love of a sensible woman.

Severe trauma explodes the cohesion of consciousness.

Attempts to stop smoking or give up any sort of self-destructive addictive behavior such as drugs, alcohol, hypersexuality, overeating, or overworking, often fail because it is very difficult to give up a means of self-regulation even when it is unhealthy until it can be replaced with a better form of self-regulation.

humans suffer from an endless number of emotional problems and challenges, most of these can be traced to early developmental and shock trauma that compromise the development of one or more of the five core capacities.

Traumatized individuals, which includes most of us to differing degrees, need both top-down and bottom-up approaches that address nervous system imbalances as well as issues of identity.

grieving is an important element in the reconnection process. Grief is how human beings come to terms with irrevocable loss.

In a healing cycle, connection to our body, emotions, and life force allows for greater connection with others, and in turn, connection with others supports greater connection to ourselves. The connection that has always been our deepest desire is now no longer our greatest fear.

There was no fatal illness, only the exhaustion of endless grieving.

The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

Si je n'avais pas ce cahier, je crois que je me serais lentement laissée aller au désespoir. Je ne savais pas que les mots peuvent sauver. Aujourd'hui, je le sais : il maintiennent le lien à soi. Ils permettent de ne pas s'égarer dans la nuit profonde de la folie.

Sometimes there is only one thing left to say, P. S. I Love You....

I took that smile and I put it right where the hole in my chest was. It was better than coffee, or chocolate, or a perfect pirouette. I clutched it and held it tight.

After trauma, any way that a person can find to pick themselves up and become a new and better version of themselves makes them stronger.

There's gotta be kindness after pain. Forgiveness.

That is, if I understand God's abounding love and grasp that God forgives me even though I don't deserve it, the realization produces one powerful result: I forgive others. On every level and no matter how superficially or deeply I was hurt.

I wish I could say that I'm totally healed; but that would be a lie. This much I can say: I'm as straightforward and transparent as I'm capable of being. In the recovery process, I've searched relentlessly for total healing. I don't know if that labels me quick or slow, truly open or slightly self-deceived.

I'm learning that I have to practice forgiveness, and sometimes it feels as if I have to do it moment by moment. Whenever the trigger gets pulled or the cloud of shame descends, I'm learning to see it as an invitation to forgive. My negative reaction means I'm aware of my lack of releasing my grudge or pain against them. It also means I can learn to let go of the hurts they caused.

Although I'm marked by my inner scars, I'm also empowered by my experiences.