Quotes About Recovery

Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It is only with the uncovering of the complete truth as it affects all those involved that a genuinely viable solution can be found to the dangers of child abuse.

I'm not too gone to be healed, am I? I'm not too gone am I?

Your phantasmagoric wound has closed.

You were sick, so sick, with your wound of thwarted longing

Don't ever speak to me from ecstasy, my life is broken.

I always speak to myself no more myself but a colander draining the sound from this never-to-be-mentioned wound

Never give up the search to have back what was lost too soon.

A brain injury is a particularly hard injury to have because it changes who you are in ways that other injuries don't, since it affects how you think, act, and respond. It's hard to talk about that loss and grief with people who have never experienced it.

Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned...another lesson learned

I read the cheery caption, about how award-recipient Harris Blanchard "took a gap year, but is certainly making up for it!" So that's what they are calling it now—the time before and after he stood trial for the rape of my daughter. A gap year.

Joan once told me she thought compartmentalizing gets a bad rap—especially when it comes to people like us, who have been through something so traumatic; ignoring it for long periods of time can be a means of survival. When you've been through fire, you can't feel that burn every day, she explained. You have to go on with your life.

The hurt's the same. The wound never heals. The details never fade.

There was loss wherever she looked, even in the world of her imagination.

He was tired, he realized, emotionally and physically. He wanted to lie down and turn off the world and sleep for a week.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

Eight hours after putting out a cigarette, you are 97% nicotine-free. After just three days of not smoking, you are 100% nicotine-free.

The moment you stop smoking, everything that goes wrong in your life is blamed on the fact that you've stopped smoking.

Part of the ingenuity of any addictive drug is to fool you into believing that life without it won't be as enjoyable, and/or that you'll be less able to cope with stress.

You need to stop thinking "I can never ever have another drink", and start thinking how wonderful it will be when you can stop poisoning yourself.

Whenever you think about smoking you must see it as a lifetime's chain of filth, disease, fear, misery and slavery.

Get it clear in your mind: CIGARETTES DO NOT FILL A VOID. THEY CREATE ONE! These bodies of ours are the most

We think of stopping smoking as something that is very difficult to do. What do we need when we have something difficult to do? We need our little friend. So stopping smoking appears to be a double blow. Not only do we have a difficult task to perform, which is hard enough, but the crutch on which we normally rely on such occasions is no longer available.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

Why did she feel like she was still broken?