Quotes About Recovery

Did your big break turn into a big bust? Sometimes a great escape from a wounded past can turn into something worse as we discover the wounds were not just from without, but they were within. So regardless of where we go, what we do, who we are with, we carry those wounds with us.

the family doctor was summoned, and pronounced me stricken with fever.

And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn't have to anymore.

but old wounds don't stop aching. They are always under the surface, ready to remind one of the original injuries.

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

Meanwhile in my head, I'm undergoing open-heart surgery.

Poetry led me by the hand out of madness.

You fell, she said, just remember you fell. I fell, is all he told the doctors in the big hospital. A nice lady came and asked him questions but because he didn't want to be sent away he said, I fell. He never said anything else although he could talk fine.

Turn wounds into words

It occurred to her that Mikaela was being nice to her. She did not know how to react, for when your heart has been poisoned and someone picks a dandelion for you -- because it is bright and yellow and you seem like you could use something like that -- all you can do is contemplate the funny ways of weeds.

Pain is pain, however it begins. And however you got here, one thing is for sure: your self-loathing is not your fault.

Quand cela m'est arrivé par mégarde, je me rattrapais, je m'en voulais.

Parfois des ivrognes notoires se rachetaient par un beau jardin cultivé entre deux cuites.

When all you've done is work toward being a professional athlete, and then you injure yourself, and you know that you're going to be out for a while, it's gut-wrenching. It almost feels like your life is over because that's all you've ever worked for.

I had an opportunity to go overseas and play professionally, but in the final game of my senior season, I blew my knee out.

Painful breakups can have profound effects on the body and mind.

The most profound memory I have from my childhood is burning down my house at 6 years old.

It's so weird, like, it's not like Gamergate is the only bad thing to happen to me. I've been homeless before, I've had to come through other stuff. A profoundly abusive childhood, but at least that stuff feels like I got to move on from it, that stuff is in the past.

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald.

In her second career as a minister, my mother defied a legacy of chauvinism to become a leader of our community, overseeing a church that served as a hub, offering parenting classes, a food pantry, after-school programming, and - in the wake of Hurricane Katrina - a lifeline to those ravaged by loss.

I don't object to AA at all - only the programs that insist that it's the only way to get clean and to stay clean.

We need to continue investing in the programs that put Americans back to work in communities like Clark County.

I spent years searching for effective programs that would lower drug use and prevent addiction.