Quotes About Recovery

The pieces of my broken heart are so small that they could be passed through the eye of a needle.

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

Sometimes we sleep because we want to, sometimes because we need it, and sometimes we sleep in self-defense.

When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it." That's

Many were able to rid themselves of chronic lifelong symptoms, such as specific phobias, panic attacks, recurrent nightmares, unexplained fears, obesity, repeated destructive relationships, physical pain and illness, and so on. This is not a placebo effect. Generally, these are not people who are gullible or suggestible. They remember—names, dates, geography, details. And after they remember, like Catherine, they become cured.

Ah, man, when Wolverine grows his face back, he's really gonna be pretty upset.

If you help a person to get better by erasing that person, what kind of a job have you done?

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

I don't think anyone can give you advice when you've got a broken heart.

After returning home from the Vietnam War in 1967, animals became his refuge from the stresses and horrors of war. Animals had also helped him stay sober for thirty-eight years. When he first met Michael at AA, he told him, "Anyone who's on the down-and-out heals himself with animals.

I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.

I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Each wound has its own time for healing...The wounds of the heart are much deeper than those of the flesh.

My friend, the poet Mark Nepo, says that the pain was necessary in order to know the truth. But we don't have to keep the pain alive in order to keep the truth alive.

Bruce D. Perry

What happened to you?" is so important in understanding what's going on with you now.

key to recovery, then, is to get the patient to understand that her perceptions aren't necessarily reality, that the world might not be as dark as it seems.

The most traumatic aspects of all disasters involve the shattering of human connections.

until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed.

la recuperación de un trauma requiere que la víctima regrese a una situación que le resulte predecible y segura.

All of us who have been broken and scarred by trauma have the chance to turn those experiences into what Dr. Perry and I have been talking about: post-traumatic wisdom.

el castigo, la privación y la fuerza únicamente consiguen volver a traumatizar a estos niños y exacerbar sus problemas.