Quotes About Recovery

you can't even begin to heal until it strikes you that something needs healing.

When anything is very bad, usually the method to fix it is also bad, and keeps you from putting it completely behind you.

I made him my whole world. And so my world was always too small. Then when he died, I didn't know what my world was anymore. I wasn't even sure I had one.

It's a hard thing to explain, but in some ways if you're broken, you're always broken. In some ways. It's like the difference between a china mug that's lying in pieces on your floor or one that's been carefully glued back together: it might not look as pretty as a brand-new one, and you might have to be a little more careful with it, but at least you can drink out of it. It works.

No one is now what they were before the war. There's just no getting any of it back.

Breaking things heals a great many hurts. This is why children do it so often.

September had no natural defense against lost things, being one herself.

I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat. That was until I became one...

And I was – still am – in a state of permanent terror that the pancreatitis may return. I still have nightmares about hospital and it is two years since my last admission. Those nights in A&E haunt me, and will probably do so forever, with their brutality and pain. No wonder I took a bit more, then a bit more, until it all spiralled out of control. No wonder I tried to run from those damaging memories into the arms of mother opiate. Charlie

Part of the reason I got so thin is because my pancreas simply couldn't digest my food and so I couldn't absorb anything. It took three years to get this wonder medicine prescribed for me,

Highly anxious children or severely traumatized children don't play.

Emotional scars often run the deepest.

Acknowledging pain, disappointment and suffering is part of the healing process.

Closure was a dumb notion made up by psychologists who justified people going to them for ever, the concept that one day you'd get over something and be able to say, 'OK, that's in the past, I'm better, I've moved on.' Bullshit.

I wish you'd read your poems," she said sternly. "We need poems to heal." "I'm not ready to heal," I said as gently as I could because I was afraid how she'd respond. She nodded. "I respect that," she said, and walked away.

O let it be enough what thou hast done, When spotted deaths ran arm'd through every street, With poison'd darts, which not the good could shun, The speedy could outfly, or valiant meet. The living few, and frequent funerals then, Proclaim'd thy wrath on this forsaken place: And now those few who are return'd agen Thy searching judgments to their dwellings trace. From Annus Mirabilis, The Year of Wonders, 1666, by John Dryden

There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.

There are no guarantees. There are no promises, but there is you, and strength inside to fight for recovery. And always there is hope.

Don't worry, Evie; my heart isn't broken, only bruised.

patterns. This sense of hierarchy and conformity was particularly strong during the militarist period of the 1930s. However, after Japan lost the war in 1945, the country became

When life events mimic shattered glass, carefully locate the pieces then gently pick them up.

Take time for yourself. If you feel guilty eating lunch away from your desk or lingering in a bath, let the deprogramming begin.

No matter. I was single, no children, a handful of plants and at 39, young enough to regroup. If I hit ground before I finished building my wings, I would not take anyone with me.

Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.