Quotes About Healing

My work is giving space - learning of its way and being in its service at the same time. We each have responsibility to express ourselves. And in this expression is the key to our healing.

Work cures everything.

I'm passionate about the empowerment and healing of girls and women. Where I do the most work in that regard is in my songwriting.

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.

The rewards are profound. Shadow-work enables us to alter our self-sabotaging behavior so that we can achieve a more self-directed life.

Inner child work is essential. It's the essence of growth as a whole person

Never forget that to forgive yourself is to release trapped energy that could be doing good work in the world.

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

It's a dynamic of grief within any family, and I found, after we lost Steve, his dad just began distancing himself. And I think it's a coping mechanism. I found it very confusing.

What I love about Stevie Wonder is the way he makes people feel. He's one of the best examples of how music can heal.

And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that's actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.

The knee was all deformed, bloodied up and leaking with puss. I just couldn't move it. Stiff. It was like I had a spare leg. All of my quad was skinny. It was like a pole with a pineapple in the middle of it.

We need to break the stigma around depression.

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.

Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.

I got it tough, but I can't even imagine what the Stolen Generation went through.

I've forgiven all my enemies - even those who have stolen money from me.

It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think?

I mix all different oils - my bathroom at home is littered with oils; I'm really into natural beauty and natural healing. Peppermint is really good if you put it on your stomach for a tummy ache; lavender is kind of all-purpose - I think everyone should carry it.

Arnica is great. I got kicked in the stomach by a horse once, and some adult slapped arnica all over it, and I had no bruise at all to show for my pain.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'

I didn't play after the Grateful Dead stopped playing. I didn't touch anything for three or four months, and I just got pretty crazy.