96 Quotes About Healing-the-emotional-self

The mindset of loss of a loved one is to understand that the loss will never be undone. You must live with it, like it or not. But, to live well, you must turn that loss into something positive. That way, you can become the best version of yourself; scarred, flawed and unstoppable

Nourish your soul, mediate daily.

Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive.

My mistake was confusing his dreams as our shared dreams. I showed him and his dreams way more love than I ever showed myself which in turn resulted in a horrible ending to a five-year relationship.

Any DayWiped clean by times stumbling gateReflecting toward my inner hateI see sweet life spring anewI touch a birth with what I doAs the dawn's warming raysMelt morning's beguiling hazeI realize the truth of liesA new year's hope with spirit fliesI wake the same as every dayI speak the words I always sayI see the sky the same againAnd now know change comes only whenA choice is made in spite of timeA goal is set without a chimeChoice renders void the voiceTo hearken in a New Year's choice

Tolerance was like one of those soothing creams—it drew out inflammation, it did away with the pain.

I could never do a job that entailed complicating people's lives

Healing is messy!

When you are feeling emotional, it is helpful to remind yourself, as a self-regulating measure, "The past is not here. This is the present.