Quotes About Family Healing

#1. Each survivor chooses how secrecy is going to fit into their healing. Some share with their immediate family, but not their childhood family and friends.

Jeanne McElvaney

#2. 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

#3. Whatever it is that you think you have discovered. You must forget it.

Diane Samuels

#4. People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

LaToya Jackson

#5. Medicine was just another a tool you could try, no different from a healing ritual or a family remedy and no more effective.

Atul Gawande

#6. Shame is the demon that keeps many of us trapped in our pain; healing comes when we gain the courage to confront our demon(s).

J'son M. Lee

#7. Church is not an organization you join; it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing.

Nicky Gumbel

#8. If you were sexually abused & could not go to your family for support, you deserve to realize that your family failed you fundamentally. Your parents did not provide a safe atmosphere of support & protection for their children, which is a parent's first responsibility. It was not your fault.

Patti Feuereisen

#9. Next time you pray any kind of prayer, whether it be for the resolution of healing, or for a house, or for a car, or for a husband, or for a family conflict, or for a solution to a problem, tell Him he can say yes or no. Because in the end, you're a winner. Every time.

Bo Sanchez

#10. Anything that helps us know ourselves more deeply, love ourselves more fully, improve our social connections with family and friends, and engage us more completely with the earth, animals, and environment, is a good resource for healing.

Jed Diamond

#11. This is what I'm supposed to be doing this summer. This is how I'm supposed to be passing my days. Figuring out the secret to how she was the most joyful person when she was dying. Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.

Daisy Whitney

#12. Winner: Getting up more times than life knocks you down

Kat Kaelin

#13. Fearing the unknown within myself has kept me crouching in a corner. I look to see who I am and discover much that is worthy.

Maureen Brady

#14. Only love can heal. Start by healing yourself. LOVE!

Abhishek Kumar

#15. You can't experience the Father's embrace until you first embrace your earthly father's experience.

Bob Parr

#16. Family therapists view the therapeutic relationship as a means to an end rather than as an end in itself. Family therapists see beyond the problematic patterns in the family to the potential healing power of family relationships.

Joseph A. Micucci

#17. I've been a therapist for more than forty years and certainly there is a place for "wise elders" in the healing process. But most people, most of the time, can heal themselves and those they love, with the help of their family, friends, and community.

Jed Diamond

#18. The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.

Mother Teresa

#19. Unlike television, nature does not steal time; it amplifies it. Nature offers healing for a child living in a destructive family or neighborhood.

Richard Louv

#20. As my heart begins to return to normal, I look down at -- and feel such an intense rush of love and relief it takes my breath away. "I will never let you put of my sight again," I promise --

Camilla Way

#21. I choose what sort of relationship I want to have with my family of origin today.

Maureen Brady

#22. Love is the most powerful healing energy. Everything you do with love spreads healing. So feel it,be it, and spread it.

Abhishek Kumar