Quotes About Coping

Es corriente entre las víctimas de violación, sea hombre o mujer, evitar los espejos y la confrontación directa con todas las imágenes de "sí mismas". Como si donde había habido una persona, ahora no hubiera nadie.»

Ferus enjoyed his fear. It was the first time since Roan's death he did not feel pain.

I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.

Well then, I'll just have to suffer

It's not God's job to decide what happens," she'd said. "It's his job to help you get through it.

It's not God's job to decide what happens," she'd said. "It's his job to help you get through it." If only she really believed that.

But you can't go back. Not ever. You have to pick up the pieces and keep moving ahead.

I didn't know it was the booze, always the booze, that brought on the darkness.

The trick is to metabolize pain as energy. Learn, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: What next? instead of Why me?

like the discomforts of a camping trip that become hilarious in the telling, the verbal formulation of distress has the capacity to cure it.

Yeah, that's funny, huh?...Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are.

I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.

Hagas lo que hagas para huir, de todas maneras te tocará afrontar tu existencia.

No hay duelo saludable sin realismo duro y crudo.

Songs were the place he took his loss and turned it into something else. Which may not have been the same as grieving, but it was something.

The author Karen Blixen once said, "All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them." But what if a person can't tell a story about his sorrows? What if his story tells him?

It isn't stress that makes us fall - it's how we respond to stressful events.

I was starting to understand that the more you talked about something the less it hurt, each telling deflating it a little bit more. That was why we had to say it out loud at the beginning of every meeting: My name is Delia and I'm an addict. It was so we could stop flinching and just live with it. (72)

The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell. His absence wasn't a problem But the corkscrew had gone as well.

Life has played her like a cat weaving between her legs, pretending to be tame, friendly, before sinking its claws into soft, vulnerable flesh.

How can you, of all people, say everything will be alright?" He has a point. I consider my answer. "Well, it's better than saying 'Keep on crying, I'm sure things will just get worse,' right?

Don't run from the pain. You have to feel it before it will get better.

An open relationship allows you to be a better lover to yourself as well as to others. It opens your perception and helps you cope with the reality of human nature, which is to seek out love, to give love, and to receive love over and over again in its many forms and many faces. One

One of the best things I've ever done was take a close look at my mental health and accept that I wasn't doing fine.