Quotes About Recovery

The No. 1 reason women stay in abusive relationships - because they're not able to take care of themselves financially. It's also the No. 1 reason why women go back.

The experience is no longer traumatic; the response of most women to the experience is relief.

Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the downturn in the economy.

One thing that I would like to do that I've seen them not do that well is take women all through the process of the postpartum period in a more meaningful way. That would be my agenda.

I spent two yours of my life being anorexic, but I would never dream of throwing up - my God!

The women rest their tired half-healed hearts; they are almost well.

I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth - and get loads of therapy - to have that?

Picking up the pieces of a shattered dream is better than having no pieces to pick up at all.

Respect your needs and limitations as you work through your grief and begin to heal

You know, Becky, you haven't been the same since that crowbar fell on your head.

After what she's been through, there really should be crime scene tape around her heart.

Sometimes the idea of living as a hermit appeals to all of us. No demands, no needs, no pain, no disappointments. But that is because we have been hurt, are worn out.

I was very surprised when I watched 'Star Wars,' and I thought, 'Oh, that's me. I've been blown up.' Then, I came back again. I really didn't know what was happening!

I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.

When I first retired, I had short-term memory loss, and I started reading about neuroplasticity in the brain, about how the brain can regenerate itself, and I don't know if it can or not.

I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.

I am starting to look like and perform like the Lou that I used to be.

We in America believe in starting over - and over and over.

For me, the healing process starts with graciousness and forgiveness.

I used to starve myself to death.

While I was never diagnosed with anorexia or bulimia at the time, I've learned that starving myself and bingeing means I had both.

There's a brain chemistry - the floatiness and the disassociation and all the things that came with starving - I became addicted to.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.