Quotes About Recovery

Right now, it's just a matter of getting my strength and endurance back. So far, no setbacks.

Suffering has no strength to wound a weary body.

It's not the wound that teaches, but the healing.

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks.

Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.

The worst injury I ever had was a stress fracture from running.

I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.

See yourself living in a new body. Hopeful = recovery. Happy = happier biochemistry. Stress degrades the bod.

The portrayal of post-traumatic stress disorder and things like that felt really big and important.

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

People don't realize the amount of stress you put on your body both physically and mentally from just the wear and tear of a season.

Training is a case of stress management. Stress and rest, stress and rest

What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career, that was probably was because my core wasn't strong enough, when I had a stress fracture in my back.

I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.

Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.

When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.

Triggers are like little psychic explosions that crash through avoidance and bring the dissociated, avoided trauma suddenly, unexpectedly, back into consciousness.

I am not "cured"--I know I never will be. I will always crave that pain to keep me centered. I will always be just a little astounded when I get through a crisis without putting a blade to my flesh.

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.

AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.