Quotes About Recovery

Healing comes from gathering wisdom from past actions and letting go of the pain that the education cost you.

La realidad es que muchas personas sí se curan de sus tormentos emocionales y psíquicos, y por lo tanto mueren «sanadas».

The process of curing is passive; that is, the patient is inclined to give his or her authority over to the physician and prescribed treatment instead of actively challenging the illness and reclaiming health. Healing, on the other hand, is an active and internal process that includes investigating one's attitudes, memories, and beliefs with the desire to release all negative patterns that prevent one's full emotional and spiritual recovery.

Indeed, sometimes it's easier to recover from a physical crisis than from a myth crisis. It can be difficult to heal from a myth crisis if you don't even realize you're in one! An unacknowledged myth crisis can be the seed of lifelong depression and even a terminal illness.

There is a time for all seasons," he quoted Scripture. "A time to break down and a time to build up. You've had your time to break down, and now it's your time to build up. Don't punish yourself for what you didn't do. Just put all that behind you and move forward.

Nancy fell so hard that the breath was knocked from her, but she struggled to her feet.

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

Actually, I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir

While strategies of colonialism were about removing and seperating people from that which is most important to them, healing and recovery must be about restoring what has been taken, reconnecting people to the stories and context of one's life and family. (p. 19)

talking above the pain of his broken heart

Or I can try to educate them about TBI, tell them that brain injury is an event from which one never fully recovers. The aftereffect of a major blow to the head is a lifelong, chronic condition that will have its flare-ups and remissions. And a severe brain injury inevitably causes personality changes.

One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.

then when the hurt goes, anger takes its place; when the anger runs out of system, loneliness steps in to take over. it's a never ending circle of emotions; every lost emotion being replaced by another.

Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.

I was convinced that you couldn't replace what was lost. I insisted on things having to be found.

I lost something that I thought defined me and I felt like a shell of a person. Instead of trying to get it back, I had to figure out why I couldn't be whole all by myself.

Sometimes I forget why I feel that way, I just have this feeling that something bad has happened to me and affected my life.

I have a big hole in my heart, I said. But it'll close over. I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil, she said. But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay? That's good advice, I said. I hope I can manage it.

I'd always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

Weirdly, strangely—wonderfully—he knew this was the moment he was touching the bottom, and he understood that from now on, however gradually, he would begin to heal.

I think forgiveness doesn't happen overnight. I think it comes in increments. When someone has made your life hell, maybe you have to recover from the fear and anger first? Before you start working on the other thing.

I'd only had time pass by in such a slip-sliding way when I'd been badly injured.

I had what amounted to an emotional hangover.

The jet lag really gets to me sometimes and I still haven't found a cure.