Quotes About Emotional health

holding on to resentments only binds you to the person you hate.

But forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. It's saying, You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

Broken heart syndrome is a lot like a heart attack symptom-wise, but it's caused by emotional trauma instead of heart disease.

To develop strong ego boundaries, children need parents with strong boundaries. No shame-based parent has these. Toxic shame greatly damages our boundaries. Without strong boundaries for protection, a child cannot thrive. Having damaged boundaries is like living in a house without locks on the doors.

Our healthy shame is nourishing in that it moves us to seek new information and learn new things. Inferiority can be experienced as a healthy limit to our abilities.

people who do not forgive are hurting themselves much more than they're hurting others.

people who do not forgive are hurting themselves much more than they're hurting others. A person who possesses this characteristic and keeps score in relationships is a person who is emotionally wired to carry all the stress that goes with carrying grudges.

Holding a grudge is never positive or appropriate.

Learn to move on from the people and memories that only cause you pain and suffering.

If a certain person in your life is making you feel more negative than positive, more cynical than open, more of a worse person than the day before, you need to let this person go, for your sake and probably his/her's as well.

If someone won't lift a finger to call you, see you and spend time with you then its time to lift your five fingers and wave GOODBYE.

Don't let past relationships ruin your future happiness, scars remind us of where we've been, not where we are going.

Although you may strongly feel someone doesn't deserve forgiveness, remember forgiving that person can be just as healthy for you.

My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All they do is make you miserable. Believe me, you can fret and fume all you want, but whoever it was that wronged you is not suffering from your anguish whatsoever.

Instead of wiping away your tears, wipe the people who make you cry.

Its almost like ive learned to become my own best friend and I dont trust anyone, and thats not healthy, its bad.

I get mad like anybody else does, but being able to laugh about getting mad is very healthy, and my kids know that.

When you live on your own for a long time, however, your personality changes because you go so much into yourself you lose the ability to be social, to understand what is and isn't normal behavior. There is an entire world inside yourself, and if you let yourself, you can get so deep inside it you will forget the way to the surface. Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.

90 percent of people's problems could be prevented if they'd choose healthier people to give their hearts to.

Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. What you want to live and be happy in the world is a woman who has her own life and lets you have yours.

Always say to yourself, I'd rather be healthy than right. Because the infection of someone so wounded will spread to you if you engage.

You are not your partner. His issues are not your issues. His behavior is not your behavior. His destructiveness does not prove that anything is wrong with you. You are separate people.

At some point we must stop: 1. Replaying what happened over and over. 2. Taking what was actually terrible in the past and tricking ourselves into thinking it was better than it was. 3. Imagining the ways things should be so much that we can't acknowledge what is.

My counselor says, "Adults inform, children explain." I will state my boundaries with compassion and clarity. But I will not negotiate excuses or navigate exceptions with lengthy explanations that wear me down emotionally.