57 Quotes About Healing-trauma

Having my defenses down felt good. I didn’t realize how much energy it took to carry my armor. My wall of protection kept bad stuff out, but it also kept good stuff from coming in. Guarding my heart is important, but not at the expense of being known by people who love me.

There is no one way to recover and heal from any trauma. Each survivor chooses their own path or stumbles across it.

You have extraordinary power to establish justice and make a real difference in the lives of those whom the enemy took unfair advantage of.....through trauma.

Remember, healing through forgiveness takes place in the soul and subconscious, not by a face to face confrontation that ends in hugging and tears of joy. In fact, chances are that would never happen anyway, so you are setting yourself up for failure if that is your expectation.

Sometimes the people around you won't understand your journey. They don't need to, it's not for them.

You deserve freedom. You owe it to yourself. You are anything but selfish whenever you decide to stand up for yourself!

How ironic that our family should be a safe haven. Our parents and siblings are supposed to love us, accept us, and care for us. They should protect us and support us. Sometimes, our home is where we find the deepest heartaches.

Hurt often holds the hidden key to unlocking your greatest healing.

Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will lose what matters to you. The world will break your heart. So I think we’d better look at what grief might offer us. It’s like what Rilke says about self-doubt: it is not going to go away, and therefore you need to think about how it might become your ally.Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing, holding, more fully valuing what we have lost…