Quotes About Recovery

You cannot cut the ground from under a man and expect him to act normally.

We have a very simple belief that everyone involved in a divorce is a griever. That includes children, parents, siblings, and friends of the couple. This attitude makes it easy for us. We always know that the primary issue is unresolved grief.

This handbook is designed to give you the information necessary to recover from loss. It has much to offer anyone who truly wants to feel better. It will allow you to choose completion and recovery rather than isolation and avoidance. If you use it, one word at a time, it will accelerate your recovery tenfold.

I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there iss nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.

A scar had been beaten into his mind which would only heal by experience.

You can recover from the state of shock.

The abused children are alone with their suffering, not only within the family, but also within themselves. They cannot crate a place in their own soul where they could cry their beart out.

I want all my friends, family and fans to know that I am in good spirits and I will be fine.

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.

Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.

Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.

Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.

I don't know a family that isn't touched by some sort of addiction.

I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined.

My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others.

I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.

It's a never ending dream for everyone it seems, to find again what was once precious and has been lost.

My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever did anything like that.

I was sexually abused by my step father for years and years, and that caused scars you can't see. And we know many people have the kind of scars you can't see.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

You get these fear memories that are hard to undo.

When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you know it is healed.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.