Quotes About Recovery

I'm making plans to go away for a month to focus on my sobriety and to continue my life in recovery. Please enjoy making fun of me on the world wide web.

Once again, her parents' problems had run through her life like a piece of heavy equipment, smashing everything in their way.

Sometimes this not remembering appears to protect the abductees from a distress that they could not handle, especially in the case of children. But we have little understanding of how this repressing force works, or, for that matter, why an altered state of consciousness, facilitated in a caring, protective setting, is so effective in recovering abduction memories.

For me and others who have attended the sessions, as well as for the abductees themselves, it is this intensity of recovered emotion that lends inescapable authenticity to the phenomenon.

frees the body to heal itself. In taking away the fear, confusion and feelings of victimization so characteristic of TMS, we give the body a chance to do "its own thing.

A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.

You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

It has been said, "Time heals all wounds." I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

Step 12 Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we will try to carry this message to others who think that Christians are better than everyone else.

It's a lot easier to heal an injured body than a damaged soul.

My horse went lame about ten days back and I turned him loose.

Anyone can make a mistake. It's how they learn from it and recover from it that shows their true worth.

It's of no consequence to us as long as we delay them for three or four days." "You won't last three or four hours," Halt said flatly, and an ugly silence fell over the small group. The Skandians were too shocked by the enormity of his insult to reply. Erak was the first to recover. "If you believe that," he said grimly, "then you have never seen Skandians fight, my friend.

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up

the heart breaks in so many different ways that when it heals, it will have fault lines ...

spiritual or emotional pain doesn't become a memory so much as a bruise ...

you were there when they trampled me - you picked me up, healed me and gave me back my feelings - is it any wonder I love you?...

People who are abused keep quiet," he said, "so I did.

Anyone that damaged doesn't have a handle on what they need.

And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

Sobriety Demystified: Getting Clean and Sober with NLP and CBT, which was published in 1996. In keeping

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.