Quotes About Recovery

it ate away at me when i was already full of holes

When our stress levels drop, biological resources are freed up for cell repair, immunity, and other beneficial functions.

Feeling like your life's been ripped apart and put together again, only put together wrong.

I'm a recovering abstainer

Time is a great faith healer

I'd had my heart broken, you see. Fell in love with the wrong chap and he crushed me right down to the bedrock. Nothing left but humiliation.

Mourning is a bitch. And it's a process. You're just not finished with it." "That's the point," she said. "I think I am. At least I want to be. I am so sick and tired of waking up feeling like someone tore off one of my limbs. Every morning, for just a few seconds, I forget. I wake up and it hasn't happened yet. There's nothing but emptiness and calm. And then it comes crashing down and I hate it. I hate it so much.

They look good but I was sick as a dog for eight months and my nipples are still numb." "You're here," I reminded her. "I'm here." She edged nearer, bumping my shoulder with her own. "The question is, for how long?

The hurt affects your ability to go forward.

Sometimes that's all you need. To know it's not broken. To know you're still whole and that you'll heal.

Because that's how it works after something terrible has happened. You know this is true if something terrible has ever happened to you. A thousand objects take on new meaning. Everything is a reminder of something else.

They call an abusive relationship a cycle of violence, when really it's a cycle of hope. It's a cycle of misguided optimism. One day that optimism is gone, if you're lucky.

...but beautiful mosaics are made of broken pieces.

During my mental illness, thank God, my grandma was my human rescuer and angel, she ask me to stop taking the medication, leading to the recovering.

Bitterness leads to brokenness in spirit.

I will not let triggers, flashbacks, nightmares control my emotions.I will not let those triedto destroy me win this war.I have awakened and I willfind peace with myself.

She who heals herself, heals others.

Hope is the first step to healing

Hiding a wound can cause a serious infection without healing. It has to be exposed and washed. Sure, the cleansing may cause pain at first—but, in the end, it brings healing, as well as relief.

When we think, we hurt. When we feel, we heal.

A day of rest yields a hundred days of progress.

You can lose your MONEY. You can lose your FRIENDS. You can lose your JOB and you can lose your MARRIAGE...and still recover...as long as there is HOPE. Never lose HOPE.

I have learned that the harder you fall…the higher you bounce!

At times in life you must rediscover your footing.