Quotes About Recovery

the death of someone close to them. The girls I see show the same signs of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as the soldiers coming back from Iraq and

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

The things is," she said at last, " sometimes people can come back and still be lost.

Trauma often robs a person of the surrounding memories—which is inconvenient, but merciful

Sentimentul este ceva ce se poate pierde ca un ceas, epuiza încet ca un cont în banc? ÅŸi reg?si ca o p?l?rie.

Europe got over the loss of its colonies much more quickly than the colonies got over their loss of Europe.

How can we cash out-of-town checks when don't know whether a town's still there?

Don't feel like a failure if you can't make a social butterfly out of the dog you rescued from a nightmarish beginning. Giving him a kind, loving home and helping him to relax enough to nap in your lap are achievements in their own right. If you can manage them, you deserve much more than a blue ribbon and a silver chalice. However

She hit us," the woman shrieked. That was the gist of it anyway. There were a lot of unladylike words that began with "F," with various "C" words thrown in for leavening. … "Ben's better," I murmured. "He's more creative when he swears." "He does it in that English accent, which is too cool.

Sometimes broken people stay broken.

My old pastor liked to say that church is a hospital for the sick, not a mausoleum for the saints.

Some wounds need to be pricked so they can drain. Others just need to be left alone.

Heartbreak can be like that, boy," said Zee heavily. "Healthy pain invites healing.

This coyote is all better right now. Are you and I going to be friends, wolf?

Recovery from verbal abuse is the opportunity to accept all your feelings and to recognize their validity. You may be the first person to recognize and accept them and to know that they are not wrong. They are, as we have said earlier, indicators that something is or was wrong in your environment, and it isn't you.

As long as this child within is not allowed to become aware of what happened to him or her, a part of his or her emotional life will remain frozen, and sensitivity to the humiliations of childhood will therefore be dulled.

Recovery is the restoration of something lost. Verbal abuse creates loss. It robs people of their sense of self, their confidence, happiness, self-esteem, self-awareness, serenity, ability to trust, peace of mind, and almost their minds.

By recognizing the abuse for what it is, the partner dispels the

enthusiastic about something when she is suddenly thrown off balance, or shocked by her mate.

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

The central virtue in a shame-based expression of recovery is obedience to a power greater than ourselves. Being asked by the third step to turn our will and lives over to a Higher Power continues the disempowering process that alienates us from our own resources and our own powers of self-assertion and determination.

Crack seemed to have a different hold on folks than liquor did. Drunks would sober up and come to their senses in the morning. But once a crackhead got hooked all they did was chase that high. Even if it meant selling everything they owned for a hit: wedding rings, household appliances, their kids' clothes. Anything that had been important didn't matter anymore.

She made another sweeping gesture that somehow went wrong because she knocked over the coffee pot and I immediately wrote down six new words which Auntie Mame said to scratch out and forget.

The feeling of the morning after the night before is not a sensation endured by the dissolute only: every morning, for every human being, is in some sort a morning after the night before...