Quotes About Recovery

Some people fall apart when they get hurt. Puddle into apathy and despair and never recover. They wait all their lives for someone to come along and rescue them.

For fuck's sake, you vanished and I couldn't find you. Do you really think I'm going to let that happen again? If you believe nothing else, concede it will work for that reason alone. I don't lose things that are mine.

Sometimes when really bad things happen, you put them in a box and never look at them again because they'll cost you the rest of your life. Some wounds never heal. You excise the savaged flesh and become the next thing.

Time will scar my wound and I'll emerge from my fugue tougher, if not healed.

When did grief end? Did it ever? Or did you just get numb from hurting yourself on it so many times?

But Band-Aids for my disease aren't what I'm after. I want a surgeon to perform an operation that leaves a deep incision where something nasty used to be, followed by a scar to remind me every day that it's over and I survived.

Karen Marie Moning

I may be more sparing with mention of my gang rape in the future. Although I enjoy baiting this bear, I don't enjoy his pain. Just his fire.

I wept for me, for my sister, for things I couldn't even begin to put into words, and might never be able to explain. But it felt something like this: I used to walk on my feet. Now all I knew how to do was crawl. And I wasn't sure how long it was going to take for me to get up off my knees and regain my balance, but I suspected that when I did, I would never walk the same way again.

You're inviting my rapists into my home.

Some people fall apart when they get hurt," he says. "Puddle into apathy and despair and never recover. They wait all their lives for someone to come along and rescue them.

But life has a way of chopping people off at the knees, and he was no exception. Ten years of his life had been stolen from him. Now he wasn't wasting another minute. He wanted to experience everything he had missed, to eat and drink and read and work and fuck as he pleased. His dreams were smaller now, but they were still dreams, and he was going after them with everything he had.

Do not worry, my sweet one. Just as night is followed by day, so too your dark times will be followed by brighter days ahead.

Just as physical wounds heal at different rates in different people, so do emotional wounds. Everyone has different needs and speeds.

feeling means your dealing means your healing

Looks like they can't talk. Why not? War does that. You can't talk.

Sometimes I guess you need to lose everything before you realize what's really important.

The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.

She thought of the horse with his scars and wondered if having them so visible wasn't preferable to the hidden kind where nobody knew how to avoid the parts that still hurt.

You're strong at the broken places.

Maybe with Sara's accident he had finally begun to see that life continued after a fall and that the hands that reached to pull you out didn't have to be your own.

a heartbreak only makes your heart bigger, that someday all those cracks and holes will be filled in with all the joy and love you haven't had yet.

You were never a disaster. Ever. It seems to me that the more we try to dissect our pasts, the more we try to go back and relive them. Trust me, it's more important to pick up the pieces and move forward and live our lives the best way we can. I've never been a fan of leftovers.

In addition to day-to-day energy levels, you also need to take care of what's known as your "surge capacity." The human adrenal system is designed to withhold a bit of energy just in case of an emergency – encountering a sabre-toothed tiger or living through a world-wide pandemic, just as examples. But if you tap your surge capacity repeatedly without a break and without replenishing it, the crash will be even more dramatic and be harder to recover from.