1,260 Quotes About Recovery

What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

Your heart knows how to heal itself , it’s your mind that fucks you up …

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

Everything changed when I learned to honour my body instead of fighting it. When I learned to take care of it, like a precious castle to protect this weary heart. To stop harming it, punishing it for looking like this or that, feeling like this or that. I don't look like they all told me I had to do, but I'm healthy and strong and vital. That is enough.

You're Superman, thinking Kryptonite makes you invincible." 

Getting in touch with our frozen grief can be a sacred act. Grief work is healing. Grieving allows us to make peace with the past and the present. Grieving helps us to come out of hiding and unravels our masks and false self. We grow stronger and wiser when we get in touch with our original pain. We are no longer chained to our traumatic buried feelings and memories—we are liberated.

I am a work in progress.

Addiction wants to make a coward out of Addicts are afraid of change because it takes absolutely no courage to stay with what you know.

I left something behind in the heat and the vastness of this continent, and I was reborn as something I knew I had always been: a wanderess.