Top 39 Quotes About Healing And Recovery
#1. The spiritual malady that we speak of so often in recovery circles requires a spiritual solution. Nothing else will ever be enough and nothing else will last.
Marta Mrotek
#2. There is no greater gift than realizing the constant presence of the Divine and His Absolute Power to create and restore all things.
Marta Mrotek
#3. Always know there are friends somewhere rooting for you. There are people you don't know, always praying for you and lifting you before God. - Jenee, from "To the Survivors".
Robert Uttaro
#4. I felt like I was being carried over the threshold of a sisterhood of loss. I knew I was not walking alone, and that eventually I would bob back up to the surface of the deep, because the women around me showed me what healing looks like.
Anna White
#5. I realized that I was okay with myself. I was quirky and withdrawn and loud, but I liked that. I smiled at strangers without thinking they were going to attack me and drag me into their cars. I went to doctors' offices and touched magazines that had been touched by sick people.
Anna White
#6. America needed recovery, not revenge. The hate had to be drained and the healing begun.
Gerald R. Ford
#7. People don't need to be forced to grow. All we need is favorable circumstances: respect, love, honesty, and the space to explore.
Ellen Bass
#8. 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
#9. Recovery itself is a very un-glamorous daily process of being willing to fall down again, to break again, to cry again, to get up and try yet again until 'success' manifests as ever-greater sustained healing.
Shannon Cutts
#10. Evolving increases our value, and when we know our value, we navigate toward those with whom we share a genuine interest and appreciation. The rest, in my estimation, is bondage.
Kyrian Lyndon
#11. It is important to learn about being multiple, and what works for their healing, from your client. To work with the alters, rather than trying to get the ANP to control the rest of the personality system.
Alison Miller
#12. And if one's goal is self-recovery, to be well in one's soul, honesty and realistically confronting loneliness is party of the healing process.
Bell Hooks
#13. Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
Aberjhani
#14. Meditation is the single most powerful tool to aid recovery from disease and lead to a life of maximum health
Ian Gawler
#15. Reiki is the best vibration for helping someone to relax well and deeply. Relaxation is key to human health and recovery because it initiates our natural and innate healing abilities. It is when we are truly relaxed that true healing can take place.
Chyna Honey
#16. Out of all the piles of dirt, garbage, and shit we have been handed, we can grow a patch of daisies.
Patti Feuereisen
#17. You have survived so much
that no one remembers.
And you still spread warm
rain on all your overgrown
lots. And you still get dressed
in the morning. You still
open wide for the sun.
Jacqui Germain
#18. For change to occur in us, we must be willing to enter the wilderness of the unknown and to wander in unfamiliar territory, directionless and often in the darkness....We do not need to keep every little thing under control. In fact, we find ourselves only by allowing some falling apart to happen.
Maureen Brady
#19. Being broken isn't the worst thing. We can be mended and put together again. We don't have to be ashamed of our past. We can embrace the history that gives us value, and see our cracks as beautiful.
Anna White
#20. My story testifies to the truth that we must never give up on people, no matter how many times they fail or how long recovery takes. We must never underestimate the healing power of prayer and love in the hands of the Lord. We must never give up hope.
Walt Heyer
#21. Recovery is an unbecoming. My healing has been a peeling away of costume after cstume until here I am, still and naked before God, stripped down to my real identity.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#22. 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
#23. I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.
Jack Irons
#24. Other flowers came at the end of the summer, but by then the winter sadness had already dissipated, and the effect of the blooms was not the same.
Jessica Stern
#25. When you feel that unpleasant darkness invading your mind, read this book and these stories will help you return to the light and warmth of life.
Indu Muralidharan
#26. It appears that DDNOS is the intentional goal of these abusers, but DID sometimes results from a failure of programming.
In DDNOS, the ANP is always present, even when another part is in control of the behavior and feelings.
Alison Miller
#27. Writing therapy is my form of healing. Try and detach yourself from painful memories by infusing characters and then stepping back.
Phil Wohl
#28. You're too sensitive' victims of sexual abuse are told over and over by those whose reality depends on being insensitive. Most adults who have been in the victim role cringe when anyone tells them they are sensitive. In fact, sensitivity is a lovely trait and one to be cherished in any human being.
Renee Fredrickson
#29. An engaging examination of a painful subject, with a focus on healing and forgiveness. - Kirkus Review
Robert Uttaro
#30. That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.
Norah Vincent
#31. I've had a lot of therapists, so I've had the opportunity to approach my fear in many different ways. I've faced it head on and sideways and tried to tiptoe up behind it.
Anna White
#32. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery.
Florence Nightingale
#33. Healing from an eating disorder is a personal journey - the medicine is whatever reminds you that you do in fact want to live, and that you are worthy and capable of love.
Shannon Kopp
#34. You really don't have to burn any bridges to let go... You don't have to destroy anything. You can just decide to cross over and move on.
Marta Mrotek
#35. Healing isn't just about pain. It's about learning to love yourself. As you move from feeling like a victim to being a proud survivor, you will have glimmers of hope, pride and satisfaction. Those are natural by-products of healing.
Ellen Bass
#36. In this week I see such a picture of life, hard and joyful pressed up together and sleeping in the same bed. They come knit together. The lines of pain run through the joy and remind us to go all in, because life is short. The joy edges the pain and gives us a reason to rise.
Anna White
#37. I have learned that I am a better everything because I wanted and loved those babies so much. I am also a better everything because I lost them. Sure, the losses left my heart and soul shattered at first, but now with daily work in recovery I have a scarred but healing heart and soul
Justine Brooks Froelker
#38. The only way to get over the pain is to face it, embrace it, hug it and learn the lessons embedded within it.
Adele Theron
#39. 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
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