Quotes About Recovery

I know my heart will never be the same but I'm telling myself I'll be okay...

The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.

None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick.

After my first few tastes I was pretty much hooked. I'd have dry spells, months without any or only piddling amounts of grace, but I never forgot about it or stopped wanting it.

The pain is a reminder that I'm lucky to be alive.

many high-functioning multiples are gifted writers and artists, who, as they heal, are able to find an aesthetic outlet for the sealed-off rage and pain they have not allowed themselves to feel.

Jesus God!" His fingers sprang open, releasing her. They rose to gingerly probe the lump at back of his skull and he groaned again. The sound was echoed by the body crushed beneath him. "Beacom?" A lavender arm lifted to see what was beneath. "Good God, man, what are you doing under there?" "Waiting for you to rouse, your grace," came the gasped reply. "Hoping that in your boundless compassion, you might even be willing to heave off me!

I honestly didn't realize at the time that I was dealing with myself. But I suppose it's true that I developed a therapy that provides the things I needed for so many years and never got.

Somehow I lost all ability to regulate not only my emotions but my behavior as well.... It was an alarmingly rapid and complete descent into hell.

The bottom line is that if you are in hell, the only way out is to go through a period of sustained misery. Misery is, of course, much better than hell, but it is painful nonetheless. By refusing to accept the misery that it takes to climb out of hell, you end up falling back into hell repeatedly, only to have to start over and over again.

El camino para salir del infierno pasa por el sufrimiento. Si te niegas a aceptar ese sufrimiento que forma parte de salir del infierno, volverás a caer en él.

If you walk into the examining room with a broken leg, the doctor doesn't pass judgment on how you broke your leg. He doesn't care if you broke your leg committing a crime or kicking the dog or tripping down the stairs or getting hit by a car. He only cares about fixing your leg.

Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.

People who don't honor their losses don't grieve. They may lose all joy in living, but they don't actively mourn, and this means that they don't heal.

I believe that most of us cannot know what we would do, trapped in a situation that required such a seemingly no-win decision. But I do know that anyone wanting to recover from psychological trauma must face just this kind of dilemma, made yet more harrowing because her circumstance is not anything so rescuable as being locked in a house, but rather involves a solitary, unlockable confinement inside the limits of her own mind.

after twenty-five years of treating trauma survivors, I have learned that getting hit is actually one of the more bearable ways a person can be assaulted.

ART must be recovering because it had to butt in with, "Tell her you care about her. Use those words, don't tell her you'll eviscerate anything that tries to hurt her." "ART, fuck off.

The horrific emotional consequences of the worst mistake of his life aside, Kai had an idea.

My skin was less even than hers and it gets completely regenerated on a regular basis due to me being shot in the face.

After medical marijuana was relegalized in California, Mikuriya treated hundreds of alcoholic patients who got their lives back after switching to pot. In general, he found that an increase in the consumption of marijuana correlated with a reduction in the consumption of alcohol.

Victory in codependency/recovery thus sounds like this: 'As I changed, all hell broke loose in my marriage . . . My husband and I began to fight a lot. My changes threatened him. I kept getting better, but the healthier I got, the worse it got at home. . . . I consider filing for divorce a real triumph in my recovery.

Whether the codependency/recovery people know it or not, parent bashing is a direct result of Freudian psychology.

A major problem with many codependency/recovery books is the belief that going back to childhood to find the why's of present feelings and behavior and even to find where patterns developed will bring relief and transformation.

There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs, they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.