Quotes About Recovery

His father's a raging alcoholic and his friends – well, people of that age, they're all scared of what's happened, I think. Anyway, the doctors want him kept quiet just now.

I've only got one leg." "Don't be silly…" "I'm not being silly…it got blown off in Afghanistan." "Poor baby…" she whispered. "I'll rub it better." "Yeah—that's not my leg…It's helping, though…

Here's another thing: There are certain wounds that never heal, certain hurts that never leave you alone, like a broken bone that heals wrong and always twinges when it's about to rain.

She had no one in the world. Her whole world, what was left of it, was here, and there was no way to get back to where she had been before. The

People do not lose respect for a man when he's down. They lose it when he refuses to get up.

I ain't much for advice. Never been any good with words the way some men are. But I know, sometimes the tears just don't come. When the time comes to start healin', you oughta let yourself.

More than 20% of the victims interviewed by Pew did confront their abusers and most reported that doing so improved the situation.

who just robbed me an hour ago,

The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.

The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.

A writer has to strain to make the reader recover the process in the words 'human being'; we talk about 'a being' and 'beings.' This book is about human being as an activity. It is not about the doing which a human does; it is about the doing which a human is.

As Kai Erikson has put it, traumatised people 'may be said to have experienced not only a) a changed sense of self and b) a changed way of relating to others but c) a changed world view altogether'. In that first

It is important to understand that most people have narcissistic pathology, so this is not to dismiss Jung. We all have narcissistic problems. Someone has suggested that we need a "Humans Anonymous Twelve Step Program," to help everyday people deal with their residual narcissistic pathology, and I agree. It's another way of saying that we need a more practical approach to our spirituality if we are to be effective in containing and channeling our grandiose energies.

offered it a respectful inclination of the head while recovering my

The hot money flowed into Europe and today once rich and powerful nations like Ireland, Greece, Italy, and Spain are financial basket cases that may not recover.

Dogs are very comforting when your world has exploded.

Reread your favorite novel, the one you only let yourself read any more when you're sick in bed.

The burden she carried was different from yours, and it had worn on her for many years. When I knew her she had forgotten joy, although I believe Arlbeth gave her a little back again.

Post-traumatic shock, phooey. Seemed to me the trauma was trotting right along with me, like a dog on a leash with its owner. I was the dog. I

I thought, I have been so tired, these last two months. I have got used to that too. I have told myself it is just part of—having had what happened, happen. You do not get over something like that quickly. I had told myself that was all it was. I had almost believed it. I had believed it.

identificar o comprender un problema no lo elimina automáticamente. No se lo puede detener ni evitar sólo porque por fin haya sido reconocido como conflicto. Aunque ese reconocimiento sea lo que hace posible su tratamiento, la cantidad de personas que siguen desarrollando adicciones de todo tipo va en aumento.

allowing him to abuse us emotionally because "he was never allowed to express his feelings before" • finding him a job.

Robin Norwood

The better the sleep, the less I will need.