Healing Ptsd Quotes

#1. I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the flashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I finally decided to quit trying to hide from truth, I began to heal.

Karen Marshall

#2. Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Abraham Lincoln

#3. We don't heal in isolation, but in community.

S. Kelley Harrell

#4. My head dipped again into his chest, holding him close. I didn't want him to go anywhere else. I couldn't stop it from flowing out of my lips. Not you. Not the guys. I want you to touch me. I always want it. Hugs. Kisses. Anything. It makes me happy.

C.L.Stone

#5. I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

Dee Dee Ramone

#6. I cannot stand the words Get over it. All of us are under such pressure to put our problems in the past tense. Slow down. Don't allow others to hurry your healing. It is a process, one that may take years, occasionally, even a lifetime - and that's OK.

Beau Taplin

#7. The truth will set you free!

Linda Diane Wattley

#8. This age is interested in success, not suffering ... Our Lord was ridiculed, insulted, persecuted, and eventually killed. In the face of opposition, He went about doing good.

Billy Graham

#9. Oh spare me, being stuck in your bedroom is not like prison. You don't have to worry about being gang-raped in your bedroom.

Justin Halpern

#10. You shall not pass!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. Recovery unfolds in three stages. The central task of the first stage is the establishment of safety. The central task of the second stage is remembrance and mourning. The central focus of the third stage is reconnection with ordinary life.

Judith Lewis Herman

#12. Part of the process in healing from trauma, like recovering from addiction, is developing connection and support with others.

Stephanie S. Covington

#13. As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.

Terry Tempest Williams

#14. Often it isn't the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.

S. Kelley Harrell

#15. Steve Job's tombstone is flatter than anybody else's.

Niko Stoifberg

#16. Always remember, if you have been diagnosed with PTSD, it is not a sign of weakness; rather, it is proof of your strength, because you have survived!

Michel Templet

#17. The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.

Norm MacDonald

#18. Our tears are trying to serve a purpose, but we rarely let them. I don't know how we got started with subverting that purpose.

Hugh Howey

#19. Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.

Judith Lewis Herman

#20. Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

Robert Englund

#21. Abuse really is its own alphabet. Those who have not gone through it cannot understand it fully. The echos of violence hang in subconscious long after the threat is gone.

Michelle Franklin

#22. Who are you to end a war? I am here to tell you - who are you not to?

Jason Russell

#23. One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#24. Something I'm not ready to name works itself under the grip of Charlies death and loosens it, and keeps the nightmare at bay when I fall back asleep.

Trish Doller

#25. You are not broken and in need of fixing. You are wounded and in need of healing.

Danu Morrigan

#26. PTSD is a disorder of recovery, and if treatment only focuses on identifying symptoms, it pathologizes and alienates vets. But if the focus is on family and community, it puts them in a situation of collective healing. Israel

Sebastian Junger