Recovery Quotes
With Ed, I always pushed away the good and only heard the bad. Today, I let in the good.
Joy sat in my throat like an egg resting on a spoon, quiet and fragile, but real.
When you are aligned with the truth of who you truly are, then you experience bliss.
Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fearis an orphaned part of usseeking joy, some disowned shadow wanting to returnto the lightand homeof ourselves.
It's just like an alcoholic to think he's doing the Zombie Apocalypse wrong.
It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.
Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society.
Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...
Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework...
I am small.So are stars from a distance. It's all a matter of perspective.
It is strange... the reasons one feels he doesn't deserve things.
Memories demand attention, and these memories will have teeth.
This book is dedicated to those who have died as a result of mind control and/or ritual abuse, and those who have lived when they would rather have died.
You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it’s how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.
Once you commit and decide that there is no turning back, you’ll find the strength.
It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.
Hope drowned in shadowsemerges fiercely splendid––boldly angelic.
Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it might go on
The most important progress and success can't be seen. If you can validate yourself internally, then external validation becomes a byproduct.
Staying in an abusive relationship for the fear of public judgment is like allowing to be buried alive to impress a coffin maker
Change must start from the individual. And the individual must want and feel ready to make such change.
Staying in a relationship with someone who doesn't love him/herself, is a direct reflection of how much you love and value yourself.
The more confident and appreciative of who you are, the less hold depression has over you.
Believe that is cure is possible for you. Discover and heal the underlying causes with a holistic recovery program. Adopt a philosophy based on what is true in the Universe.
I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
Rigid traditions capture soulsprisons of spiritual thoughtman’s religion has captured a god grown too small and very weak.
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" - Billy Connolly
And I guess at the end of the day, you’re just amazed that I can still stand, and I’m just amazed that I can stand still.
You are a warrior in a dark forest, with no compass and are unable to tell who the actual enemy is, So you never feel safe ..
I remember only images, snapshots burned into me, bleeding into each other until I no longer knew the order in which they had happen.
Don"t gaze too hard at your belly button Or you will unexpectedly hit rock bottom!
Having to admit that you are depressed makes one feel less than. Broken. Yes, that's what it is. Broken.
Light existed all along. Of course it did. Who says it didn't because I couldn't see it?
You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. We were created to be victorious.
Sometimes things do not go the way one wanted them to go... At times like this, one would wish that one had not dreamt so much. Just hang in there... destination is just a mile away.
I needed some space to lay myself out, so that I could decide which pieces I wanted to pick up.
Sounds of depression remembering rejection Hope turns to despair black roses everywhereKeep hearing echoes voices in my mind repeating endless lies evil in disguise
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.
We got through it. Haven made excuses for me to friends, and made an appointment with a terrific doctor, who put me on Effexor, 150 milligrams a day, enough to get my brain straightened out.
I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.
There had been a subtle realignment of the spheres. The world was somehow a place I could endure again. If life was a grey corridor lined with doors, it was now within my power to open some of them.
One reason we're not winning the fight against depression is that our available treatments leave so many in partial recovery limbo.