Quotes from Naomi Judd

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

Your body hears everything your mind says.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around. Can't really fault the logic of that, unless you want to go down the dead end of course!

Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.

I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I've ever done.

I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.

Your father leaving your family, that's your bedrock for all your future relationships and that's your security when you're a kid.

It's so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both their healthcare professionals and caregivers. Clear communication about pain is vital to receiving proper diagnosis and effective treatment.

I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones.

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.

For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around.

Radical acceptance is to know that painful things are still going to happen, but how we respond makes a difference. We don't have to condone our current reality, but we have to accept it for what it is instead of staying stuck, wishing it were different.

I wanted to confess that if someone took out a gun and killed me onstage he would be doing me a favor.

Your body hears everything your mind says.

After three weeks on Zoloft and Lexapro, I felt like a new person. But not a person anyone would ever want to get to know.

The third prescription had even less effect in lifting my depression than the first two and had done nothing but increase my anger and feeling of hopelessness.

There can always be healing, even if there is no cure.

But one of the frustrating symptoms of my depression and anxiety is that I had no attention span at all. I would read one paragraph and then realize that I had no idea what I had just read, or I'd accidentally reread the same paragraph, over and over. I was desperate to find articles or research by someone who understood what I was going through.

Bruce Lipton (The Biology of Belief)