Quotes About Recovery

To repair the irreparable ravages of time.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Lots of people go back to other hospitals but not to Bloomingdale. It cured me. It made me feel if I was ever to commit suicide again, it had to be done. No more attempts. No more games.

Nobody knows what to do when there's a tragedy. Nobody practices for it.

Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

You called her Kitten? And she let you? She put me in a coma for three days when I called her that! My balls never recovered from her smashing them into my spine!

The flashbacks dump adrenaline into her bloodstream a hundred times a day, so her body is helpfully exhausted.

Trauma waits for stillness.

She is bone-chilled and a bit battered, but she breathes.

Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.

Not only does depression take away our spiritual and emotional health, it also undermines our physical health.

As Woods lay unconscious on the road at 2:25 a.m. on November 27, 2009, blood on his teeth and lips, he finally appeared as he truly was-a vulnerable, fragile, deeply wounded person.

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

Love heals all wounds and not just time alone.

In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

No, this time I needed to sit down and start carefully, methodically, systematically sorting through the mixed up pieces of my shattered life.

Lesson for the day, kids: hangovers are real, and they are the opposite of fun.

Every alcoholic who has stopped drinking can remember the last time he got drunk. For me, it was the night I drank so much Crown Royal my scrotum turned into a purple pouch with a gold-tasseled drawstring.

I took a couple of deep breaths, my heart finally setting back into my chase.

I'd finally healed enough from the aforementioned buttock injury that sitting was no longer painful, so I was enjoying the experience as much as possible. You don't realize how many times you're required to sit in any given day until you've been stabbed in the rear. And because injuries to that particular region are inherently hilarious, nobody gives you any sympathy. It's a lose-lose situation all around.

There are certain kinds of deaths that one should not be expected to relive, certain kinds of connections so deep that when they are broken you feel the snap of the link inside you.

It is easy to understand why trust becomes a major issue for adults abused as children when you remember that trust is learned in childhood. As children, we were totally dependent upon our parents. We trusted that they would feed us, change our diapers, keep us safe and warm. When this trust is unknown or broken, it is difficult to restore.

As you begin to accept that you were not responsible for the abuse, and that your parents had a problem many people have, you may feel less embarrassed.