Quotes About Recovery

It's a lot easier to be crazy or mad than to just get on with living.

But here alone, not needing to take care of anyone else and not caring very much what happened because all the worst things had already happened, she stepped into the

Casi nada sabemos [...] del macehualli cuyo trabajo alimentaba a los habitantes de la ciudad [...]. Por ello es necesario mencionarlo [...] tanto más cuanto que después del desastre de 1521, después de la destrucción total de las fuerzas y de las ideas, de las estructuras sociales y de las religiones, sólo él sobrevivió y sobrevive todavía.

She was expected to recover, but the prognosis was uncertain as to whether she might have

Normally, she would never wish a head injury on anyone, but it might make her days in Archival Studies a bit easier.

As long as we see abusers as victims, or as out-of-control monsters, they will continue getting away with ruining lives. If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation.

I wish I could somehow recover all those years I wasted waiting around for him to deal with his issues." Save yourself that sadness if you can, by insisting on nothing less than complete respect.

Resistance never disappears; it waits in the shadows, sometimes for many years, and then eventually sprouts again. You may have gone through dark times when you felt, "I just can't fight this anymore, I give up," yet you rebound after a while to try again to recover your rights. And one day you will succeed.

Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not "cure" partner abuse.

Alcohol cannot create an abuser, and sobriety cannot cure one. The only way a man can overcome his abusiveness is by dealing with his abusiveness. And you are not "enabling" your partner to mistreat you; he is entirely responsible for his own actions.

I wish I could somehow recover all those years I wasted waiting around for him to deal with his issues.

Kay Douglas's book is the most supportive, realistic, and practical guide for abused women that I have encountered. A woman with this book in her hands is on the path to a new life. The author really 'gets it' about what it takes to deal with a destructive partner and takes the reader step-by-step from the beginnings of grasping what is happening to her all the way to healing once the relationship has ended. Outstanding!

An abusive man is at his most punishing when the woman moves toward health, independence, and social connection.

Lost. The therapist made it sound as if the person could be found. As if death wasn't final and irrevocable.

alcoholic if necessary

Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.

Bill . . . but did you see Norma when she was ill, towards the

Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life

As Lynn began getting psychologically better, she took me to a variety of sites. She taught me how to read trail markers. In the end, Lynn's stories could not be denied. She was not only a victim, she wanted badly to heal. As her experiences were told and worked through, as she slowly began to come to grips with her past, the personalities within her have slowly begun to heal.

I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage.

Now, Doc—" "Yes, Shiloh?" She interrupted with exaggerated sweetness, and fluttered her eyelashes. Shiloh grinned. "I dunno, I musta gone crazy there for a minute. I was actually going to try to talk you out of something. But don't worry, I'm okay now.

Trust me, I'm going to find out where the money has gone and how it has been spent, and see if we can't get it down there quicker to let that rebuilding start.

What can you do? You pick yourself up. You pull yourself together. You move on.

After that, of course, though he recovered later, nobody was about to believe any tales he had to tell about little live men.