Quotes About Healing

The nature of trauma," van der Kolk had said, "is that you have no recollection of it as a story. The nature of traumatic experience is that the brain doesn't allow a story to be created.

grief—particularly the phenomenon known as complicated grief—runs its own course in its own time.

This is why therapists go to such lengths to urge their anxious patients away from intellectualization: The first step toward peace is disarmament.

As he practiced more, added loving-kindness to the mix, and went on retreats, his PTSD symptoms gradually became less frequent, less intense.

Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.

I can't have it near me anymore, I'm grenading it back to you, as soon as I unfold it and read it and cry one more time. Because me too, and fuck you. Even now.

Te quise y ahora te devuelvo tus cosas, las saco de mi vida como a ti...

Another song," Allison says. "The one by that band, from when I was in high school, that saved my life the way songs do.

This is what happens. You meet people who are in pain, in life and love, and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.

You have to really imagine that a person's quest, in a larger sense, gently reconnects the emotional and physical circuits that were left in abandonment or that never had the opportunity to become developed.

That water's colder'n hell! That's what makes it good. That's what makes it help all your bruises'n bumps'n stuff. It's colder'n a goddam witch's tit in there!

After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it's always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.

Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.

My bed wasn't feeling well this morning, so I had to stay home to take care of it.

Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in healing the sick, deaf, or lame – if such healing accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will. Thus, even with strong faith, many mountains will not be moved. And not all of the sick and infirm will be healed.

Stop remembering what God has forgotten

"Then his flesh is renewed like a child's; it is restored as in the days of his youth."

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it on someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

You don't let go of a bad relationship because you stop caring about them. You let go because you start caring about yourself.

It can be hard to forgive and let go but it's important to remember that harboring the resentment and holding a grudge can hurt you even more. The word "forgive" really means to give something up for yourself not for them.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!

One cannot move forward in vibration, and raise one's consciousness without letting go of anger and frustration.

As I walked out the door towards my freedom, I knew that if I did not leave all the hated, anger and bitterness behind that I would still be in prison.

Forgiveness works directly on the emotion of anger (and related constructs such as resentment, hostility, or hatred) by diminishing its intensity or level within the mind and heart.