Quotes About Recovery

Some of those I help are afflicted with what I call soul loss, which is what happens when the soul gets fragmented and a part of it does not know how to return to the body, or realizes it's not safe to return.

needed to get shit-faced and forget everything that had happened.

My walk through the flames permanently scarred my face, but it was the hidden scars that disabled me even more than the obvious ones.

America's a very traumatized society.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

After 'Ace of Space,' I had quite a bumpy ride in terms of my career and personal life.

After Rilo Kiley broke up and a few really intense personal things happened, I completely melted down. It nearly destroyed me. I had such severe insomnia that, at one point, I didn't sleep for five straight nights.

My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.

I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

Personally, I had over 550 BTC in Gox. I will never get any of that back.

The anxiety phase of my first depression lasted six months. It was incredibly paralyzing.

I don't want to think much about my injury in Australia. That phase is history.

I've had people that I've given up on, kicked out - situations where I was becoming part of the problem because I was sort of enabling so I said, 'Godspeed, farewell.' And they've come back to me four years later and they're in a CDAAC program or they're getting a PhD.

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

I knew that maybe I couldn't be playing again, but I just wanted to get in physical shape.

Even if you're ill, physical activity at a lower level will help you beat it.

I've dealt with a lot of physical pain, with a lot of emotional pain; anybody's who's ever been an alcoholic has handled both of those in extreme.

'Family Life' is a blueprint of my life. It was horrible and physically gruesome in a way the book doesn't attempt to capture. It was emotionally very bleak.

I couldn't change the fact that I did my ACL, but I could control how I reacted to it. That's what I focused on, becoming stronger mentally and physically.

I've done what I could as far as getting physically healthy after my knee injury, and I've done what I could to get mentally healthy after losing my husband.

I was with Luke Shaw at Southampton. He's a very strong boy. He's had a horrific leg injury. You don't come back from that without being mentally and physically strong.

I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.

I just think my body can't handle it any more. I did try a little drink a while back, and I was actually physically ill. I went into an immediate depression, and felt awful, just dreadful. So that's it. I'm over it now.