Quotes About Recovery

the control she gained over the situation allowed her to manage her anxiety such that it minimized the effects that the abuse had on her daily life.

Very often, "what happened" takes years to reveal itself. It takes courage to confront our actions, peel back the layers of trauma in our lives, and expose the raw truth of our past. But this is where healing begins. —

until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. The wounds will bleed through and stain your life, through alcohol, through drugs, through sex, through overworking. You have to have the courage to pull out the wound and begin to heal yourself.

It's that we have changed our fundamental question from 'What's wrong with you?' to 'What happened to you?

developed post-traumatic wisdom.

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The brain develops, processes incoming sensory input, and heals in sequence.

We must understand and heal the wounds of the past before we can move forward.

often follows is a complicated, frustrating pattern of self-sabotage, violence, promiscuity, or addiction.

This is where the work begins—the work to excavate the roots that were put down long before we had the words to articulate what was happening to us.

if you have experienced trauma but haven't excavated it, the wounded parts of you will affect everything you've managed to build.

She said that until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. The wounds will bleed through and stain your life, through alcohol, through drugs, through sex, through overworking. You have to have the courage to pull out the wound and begin to heal yourself. This is the lesson I hope everyone carries with them from our conversation, too.

Twelve-step programs have long stressed that the key is giving up any illusion of control—to admit that we're wrong, weak, or full of it, and then relinquish authority to a higher power.

Let yourself go with the disease, be with it, keep company with it—this is the way to be rid of it.

No hay otro modo de sanarse sin esperar curar: hay que ir hasta el fondo de la situación de desamparo en la que todos nos encontramos, cualquiera sea el matiz que adquieran nuestras angustias.[18]

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them. -Bono

who was experiencing a bit of post-traumatic stress.

Both the poor and the non-poor need to recover their true identity and their true vocation. Everyone is poor in God's world, and everyone is in need of transformation.

They say nerves heal real slowly. Lots of things about us heal real slowly.

Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.

They got drunk and high on a regular basis, but this is a vestige of youth that you either quit while you're young or you become an addict if you don't die. If you are the Old Guy In The Punk House, move out. You have a substance abuse problem.

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.

Not everything that's broken is destroyed, even the universe exists only after splitting to pieces

There is that in thee, poor lad, which I feel too curing to my malady. Like cures like; and for this hunt, my malady becomes my most desired health.