Quotes About Healing

Así como el vínculo inicial de apego permitía el desarrollo del niño, es en última instancia el nuevo vínculo de apego con el terapeuta el que propicia el cambio en el paciente. Parafraseando a Bowlby (1988),

The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest

When things go wrong in a child's world, children believe it is their fault. They believe there is something they should have done or perhaps something they can do that will fix it. The problem with that belief is that it is a lie.

Eventually all of that pain and anger just sort of fades away, and all we're left with is growing old and forgetting.

You don't have to experience grief, but you can only avoid it by avoiding love. Love and grief are inextricably intertwined.

When someone dies, the relationship doesn't die with them.

Healing doesn't mean the loss didn't happen. It means that it no longer controls us.

Death ends a life, but not our relationship, our love, or our hope.

Life gives us pain. Our job is to experience it when it gets handed to us. Avoidance of loss has a cost.

A loved one's death is permanent, and that is so heartbreaking. But I believe your loss of hope can be temporary. Until you can find it, I'll hold it for you. I have hope for you. I don't want to invalidate your feelings as they are, but I also don't want to give death any more power than it already has. Death ends a life, but not our relationship, our love, or our hope.

You have to cry your own tears because no one can do it for you.

grief is optional in this lifetime. Yes, it's true. You don't have to experience grief, but you can only avoid it by avoiding love. Love and grief are inextricably intertwined.

Ultimately, meaning comes through finding a way to sustain your love for the person after their death while you're moving forward with your life. That

Your loss is not a test, a lesson, something to handle, a gift, or a blessing. Loss is simply what happens to you in life. Meaning is what you make happen Only you can find your own meaning Meaningful connections will heal painful memories

Love and grief come as a package deal. If you love, you will one day know sorrow.

Your pain will not always be like this," I told her. "It will change." This is a message that the grieving need to hear, and in the moment of saying it, I often observe a shift. The person looks up at me and says, "It will?" And he or she suddenly becomes lighter.

Thank you, dear doctor, for curing me of my delusions. But what do you have to offer me instead?

Así que huyes de los causantes de dolor, vas a un sitio nuevo, intentas convencerte de que el viejo sitio no existe, que la distancia borra la historia».

The sickness that's the price you pay for cure

Así que huyes de los causantes de dolor, vas a un sitio nuevo, intentas convencerte de que el viejo sitio no existe, que la distancia borra la historia

I don't know... the weight of it, I guess. At some point, it becomes bearable. It turns into something that you can crawl out from under and... carry around like a brick in your pocket. And you... you even forget it, for a while. But then you reach in for whatever reason and - there it is. Oh right, that. Which could be aweful - not all the time. It's kinda...

Finished a letter for the New York Herald, trying to enlist American zeal to stop the East Coast slave-trade: I pray for a blessing on it from the All-Gracious. [Through a coincidence a singular interest attaches to this entry. The concluding words of the letter he refers to are as follows:—] "All I can add in my loneliness is, may Heaven's rich blessing come down on everyone, American, English, or Turk, who will help to heal the open sore of the world.

This rejection, this cold unthinking hate. How much it pains him, like a slap against a burnt patch of skin, even after all these years. The unkindness of strangers.

FORD: That's right - and you said, when you've done something unforgiveable, forgive yourself, and that's what I've done, and it's done.