So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis
~ Ellen Bass
How we perceive, feel about and respond to people and situations is far more guided by the lessons of early childhood than we would like to believe. We may be adults, chronologically and physically, but too often the youngest parts of our personality are invisibly, yet actively, living our lives.
~ Charlette Mikulka
You keep playing with what broke you,then wonder why you don’t heal.Leave the wound alone,throw away the poison,and watch the magic of recovery.Your wings of wisdom are ready for flight.
~ Melody Lee
It’s like I need to love you to come back whole from where I sometimes go.
~ Robert B. Parker
Your body would not get sick if you held no thought of resentment. It is neither good nor bad of itself. If we hold anything against anyone, we will suffer ourselves.
~ Donna Goddard
Relationships are used by the darkness to keep people revolving around the ego’s demands. For a moment, people see the light of the divine in each other. They run to it and then quickly forget the light they once saw as their fears reclaim their consciousness. Thus begins the ongoing battle to protect one’s own ‘rights’, in case they be forgotten or betrayed. The tally of what is owed is counted, the guilt of perceived wrong doings is cast upon the other, one’s freedom must be paid as the price for ‘love’, and it is only in short periods of peace when all of this is forgotten. Those moments are the precious windows of the Soul.
Every grievance you hold hides a little more of the light of the world from your eyes until the darkness becomes overwhelming. Everything you forgive restores that light. So ask yourself, who is it that you are really hurting?
We draw into our life those who will help us to grow. Naturally, we tend to have mixed feelings about those very people but they are marked for us. We have forgotten that we wrote them an invitation some time ago. We look at them as if they are intruders when all along they are our guests.
Letting go of the belief that we’re powerless to help relieve our own suffering enhances our ability not only to heal but also to genuinely love and receive the love of others.
~ Sharon Salzberg
I asked myself only when he needed my help, How will the broken heal the wounded?
~ Sanhita Baruah
Your heart will always open again if you let it.
~ Renae A. Sauter
If you spend time judging and criticizing people, you will not have time to heal from your pain or brokenness. You cannot love yourself when you judge or criticize others who are created in God's image and after His Likeness...in which you are also created. Love cannot operate from a space of pain. Love and hurt cannot reside in the same space.
~ Kemi Sogunle
Confusing being mortal with being threatened can occur in any realm. The fact that something could go wrong does not mean that we are in danger. It means we are alive. Mortality is the sign of life. In the most intimate and personal of arenas, many of us have love and trusted someone who violated that trust. So when someone else comes along who intrigues us, whose interests we share, who we enjoy being with, with whom there could b some mutual enrichment and understanding, that does not mean that we are being violated again. Experiencing anxiety does not mean that anyone is doing anything to us that is unjust.
~ Sarah Schulman
Don’t ever stop believing in your own personal transformation. It is still happening even on the days you may not realize it or feel like it.
~ Lalah Delia
Healing—takes time,and—so does—not healing.Chose—how you spend your time —wisely.
Your soul finds ego in fear. Your mind finds ache in pain but your heart finds love when free.
Truth is the basis of all healing.
~ Barbara Schmidt
Sometimes, to love people, I must completely avoid them. Sometimes, to be strong, I must completely fall apart. Sometimes, to create, I must completely destroy.
~ Vironika Tugaleva
Your transformation will begin the moment you stop worrying for someone rise to rescue you.
~ John Mark Green
If you sing a song, any brokenness shall heal.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Healing is your right, your responsibility and the risk you can't afford not to take.
~ Thaiia Senquetta
You must have thought more times than you realized it will hurt.You should know it may. Okay. It may hurt immensely to open you up in your safe, dark space, sporadic light and chaotic air hitting you unlike anything you have known. Sometimes it will feel impossible to swallow. Because finding your way back to you involves telling the truth about oneself while pushing through a field of trees that are all whispering different tones of you.
Don't everallowthe disharmony of otherstobecome your ownamindful practiceof discernment(and the dislike for wearing bullshit)buildsthe eye, heart and spiritual muscles.
For every spirit who is learning: you heal yourself.
Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing.
~ Jennifer Brown
I understood then, with absolute certainty, that theability of the horse to sense emotion, energy and spirit isbeyond what most of the human world realises. This is whytheir impact on us can be so instant, so consistentlypositive, so transformational.
~ Pam Billinge
Let go of the pain. But never forget the past lessons.
Had life not given me reasons to grieve, I would never have known the healing power of a hug.
~ Richelle E. Goodrich
She chose the attractive room, not noticing the cloven hoof exposed beneath the ornate curtains. That decision has surely haunted her every day since, finally catching up to her.
~ K. Martin Beckner
The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.
No one can hurt you except you give them the power to do so and choose to accept it.
It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
~ Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite
~ Cassandra Clare
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
~ Cormac Mccarthy
Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet.
~ Marie Lu
Time heals all wounds.
~ Stephen King
Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Some memories never heal. Rather than fading with the passage of time, those memories become the only things that are left behind when all else is abraded. The world darkens, like electric bulbs going out one by one. I am aware that I am not a safe person.
~ Han Kang
Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.
~ Jonathan Nolan
You cannot face it steadily, but this thing is sure,That time is no healer: the patient is no longer here.
~ T.s. Eliot
