Quotes About Recovery

You don't have to understand why anything that has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains.

If I could open a vein. Not to inject any shit, I will never weaken like that again, but just to feel the kick of it, the old memory. So this numbness lifts. So I could get back there easier.

How exhausted I am suddenly!—though this has been Ray's best day in the hospital so far, and we are feeling—almost—exhilarated.

He said no break is permanent. Like a bone that heals crooked, still it will heal.

stroke recently. A friend at least a decade

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.»

Like a memory of having been poisoned by something you'd eaten, barely managed to survive—and yet here is the food again, and you are hungry.

She didn't return to school until the first Monday in March. By that time she'd thought, thought long and hard, much of the time in solitude in her room, and healed herself. Of course, she kept up with her school assignments; she was diligent, even obsessive about that.

We don't want to survive. We want to be healed.

Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly. MATTHEW 11:28-30 THE MESSAGE

No matter how wounded we are when we begin our journey toward wholeness, God has guaranteed our success as long as we don't give up. He gathers up the fragments of our broken lives and makes sure that nothing is wasted.

Uno es feliz hasta que la caga de cierta forma, luego no hay manera de recuperar eso que uno era antes

Recovery from trauma can take place only within the context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation. In renewed connections with other people, the survivor recreates the psychological faculties damaged or deformed by the traumatic experience.

She felt as though she'd acquiesced in her own rape ...

I'm sure the salt water is good for it

contributed to the disaster.

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

I did not drink because of my problems. I had problems because I drank. It would take me twenty-three years to figure that out.

But the odds against me were getting higher each day. I, who was my own worst enemy, needed a best friend. I thought booze was my friend. I did not know I was in a fight—not just with my lawyers, not just with my husband, but also with my disease. I didn't know I could not win this one on my own, that it would take years, and a change of mind and heart, to win the battle with an opponent I could not even see.

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

When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life. ROBIN NORWOOD

It is not queer, and both desolating and comforting, how, with all associations broken, one forms new ones, as a broken bone thickens in healing.

We're all tougher than we think we are. We're fixed so that almost anything heals.