Recovery Quotes
Every morning, whether I've slept or not, whether I've made it through the day without crying or given in and sobbed in the shower, where no one can hear me― the sun comes up, and I make my choice.
I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy...
Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together
Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through.
It's crazy, how similar we are. Here's both of us, working through our stuff, trying to make something positive out of something really bad.
Everything is, the way it is, for a reason. Or it isn't. Or neither. Or both. It's so hard to tell. It's so hard to tell you're a mile away by the Luke in your eye.
Spurred by Amy’s death I’ve tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself.
But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors.
Clinicians have told me that our emotional is arrested at the age that an eating disorder takes control of our lives. After we recover, we pick up emotionally where we left off at that age.
Myth: US housing market is in recovery. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home foreclosures.
The good news, however, is that, also contrary to popular belief, full and lasting recovery from an eating disorder is possible.
Now I’msober and Irealize, Ididn’t drink toescape the world, I drank to escapemyself
There is no one way to recover and heal from any trauma. Each survivor chooses their own path or stumbles across it.
Is the person I was before dead? Or will the worst things that happened to me eventually get diluted by the rest of my life, become just a part of the story that I've always been writing?
I want to just go back to being the person I was before, but you can't stop being the person you've become. You just have to keep going forward.
That’s the only thing you can do with a mess. Start cleaning it up, a little at a time.
Like daffodils in the early days of spring, my neurons were resprouting receptors as the winter of the illness ebbed.
Why lie, Robert? Why lie? You know that lying is the alcoholics kryptonite, you can’t afford it, the reasonable voice in his head screamed.
The notion that life could be any different - that it could be better - becomes inconceivable. You forget how good it was to be normal. Worst of all, you come to believe that you prefer it this way.
A suicide is tragic because nothing interrupted it.
Basically, when it comes to women, both aging and eating are somehow shameful.
Everything was so broken, but it would heal. Saxonia will heal. Hollownot will heal. Everything will heal.I was broken. I will heal.It is certainty that destroys the souls of men.
Perhaps that’s the best way to recover, to return to the way things were before as quickly as we can. We won the Great Battle, so nothing needs to change.
There would be a general reclaiming of fallen buttons and misplaced spectacles, of neighbors and kin, till time and error and accident were undone, and the world became comprehensible and whole.
Life is too short to have debts and doubts, Pay the bills, no regrets, be up and about.
Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it. He doesn't hear the impact, can't smell the blood.
After the brain surgery, I started the hard process of recovery.
I learned that if I always performed a rescue, the woman never learned to lean on God…..I now realize that I shouldn’t work harder at a person’s recovery than she is willing to work.
Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving.
Being able to say, “No, ” is a necessary ingredient in a healthy lifestyle.
Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.
This imbalance causes resentments within the over-responsible and dependency with the irresponsible person and this dynamic becomes the destructive life-pattern not conducive to happy families.
I'd never opened up the gas station if it had been someone else, but I know Tucker's fond of you. It's a shame you don't keep in touch with the old man.
Mom and dad probably told you I've been arrested. I'm innocent. I want you to know that.
Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.
Our minds have a great capacity for deception. This does not mean we are necessarily dishonest but if we are not careful, when our brains do not have answers, our minds will create them.