Quotes About Recovery

A Car Accident

Mrs. Figg breaks her leg

Enter Dr. Walter Kempner and his rice-and-fruit diet. Without drugs, he brought patients with eye-popping blood pressures like 240/150 down to 105/80 with dietary changes alone.

asked athletes to eat about a cup and a half of blueberries every day for six weeks to see if the berries could reduce the oxidative stress caused by long-distance running.42 The blueberries succeeded,

Your body has a remarkable ability to recover from sporadic insults as long as you're not habitually poking it with a fork.

When you are on the path, the attraction of drugs and alcohol dramatically diminishes, because you realize how much they knock you around and disturb your clarity, focus, and work flow.

The starting point of the 2014 BIS report is the main theme of the present book: We are not in a typical cyclical downturn, but have reached the culmination of a long buildup of cycles. Each recovery since 1945 has added more debt, increasing carrying charges that divert spending away from current goods and services (debt deflation, as Chapter 8 has discussed).

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

Recovering alcoholics have an expression: "If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today." With all that's happened, it's been liberating to understand that I don't have to carry the weight of all my disappointments or expectations. Sometimes it just is what it is. I can accept that.

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.

what that post-Holocaust life ought to be.23

When the heart Is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind From the good old sea blow in To bathe the wound with salt And let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird lean in the hole and sing A simple song like a tiny bell And let it ring Let it go. Let it out. Let it all unravel. Let it free and it can be A path on which to travel.

Sometimes we have to hit bottom before we figure out how to really enjoy life.

Grief is schizophrenic. You find yourself of two minds, the one that governs your days up until the moment of grief—the one that opens easily to memories of the girl at six, twelve, eighteen—and the one that seeks to destroy everything afterward.

Alcoholics don't have relationships-they take hostages.

You ever considered the possibility that you might be an alcoholic?" "Nope. Alcoholics go to meetings," he replies. "I don't go to meetings.

Chances are good that if you walked away from your house after the real estate market collapsed, the Cavs now own it.

When we have no hope for healing, our minds and bodies react in accordance with our thoughts and feelings.

The greatness of Intel is not that it is smarter than other companies (though it may well be) or that it is too clever and competent to make a false move (we've just seen a stunning example of the very opposite) but that it has consistently done better than any company, perhaps ever, at recovering from its mistakes.

Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.

problem with Housing First stems from the fact that it doesn't require that people address their mental illness and substance abuse, which are often the underlying causes of homelessness.

While some homeless are attracted to San Francisco for housing and services, many of San Francisco's most visible homeless people don't use them. When I visited the Tenderloin with Tom Wolf, he pointed to the doorway to a building. "I slept here," he said, "because I was such an addict that I didn't want to walk the five blocks to the shelter. I wanted to be right near the dealers.

Emotionally, I was just a mess. But it's such a long recovery period that you have to come to terms with it. You can't cry the whole time until you get back on the field.

No one ever tells you that when your heart breaks, you can feel it. But you can. It feels like something has crumbled inside you and the pieces are falling into your stomach. It hurts more than any punch ever could. You stop breathing, and for a while you can't remember how. When you finally do, it feels like your throat has closed up, like you're trying to suck air through a straw.