Quotes About Recovery

When I got sober and started working out, I fell into that trap of working out too much. I know a lot of guys can relate to that - if you don't get that runner's high every day, you feel like, 'Oh my God, I'm losing it.'

I quit drinking because I thought somewhere I had fallen in that trap of addiction, and the only way to get out of it was to acknowledge it to myself.

Know that you can move past things that have happened to you and that healing takes time. Take the lessons you learned in the past and hold them close, but move forward and try not to get trapped in what was.

Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence.

Everyone deals with trauma differently, and recovery is always a work in progress. But courage is contagious, and the more that people stand up and speak out against misogyny, the faster we can create the kind of world where we won't have to.

Everybody faces pain. Everybody has trauma.

Childhood trauma is really what puts the rocket fuel behind addiction.

The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.

People who have gone through trauma need help with logistics in the short term.

We have a pandemic of childhood trauma.

The big 'Aha!' moment is that the trauma never goes away.

I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.

When I started talking to my therapist, we hit the source of my PTSD and the trauma that came from the things that occurred when I was younger - issues with my father and how that may have affected me.

Five has sort of had his own little life aside from everyone. He spent 45 years in the apocalypse, and that took a toll on him and was a big part of his overall trauma.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

Different people respond differently to head trauma than others.

There's something called toxic stress, which is repeated exposure to trauma. I was fascinated by how it affects the brain and the development of a person.

To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.

As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow.

Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.

Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.

These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.