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Memoir writing draws on all aspects of who we are, body, mind and soul. We are challenged to dig deep, to remember, and once again inhabit the skin of who we were and what we have learned. Writing memoir is an act of testimony, witnessing, healing. When you write a memoir, you draw upon layers of your consciousness and discover your true nature, your essential self, and are transformed the process.” Linda Joy Meyer
— Rossandra White
Of course, we often think we have to get sick literally in order to get the rest or pleasure we need in our lives. Bobbie and I therefore taught our children when they were younger that if they needed a day off from school, they should just say that and take a health day, not a sick day. That made them look at life differently. I think all of us need to rethink our attitudes toward health and sickness.
— Bernie S. Siegel, Peace, Love and Healing: Bodymind Communication  the Path to Self-Healing: An Exploration
She collapsed. I stepped forward and caught her. I thought of two trees nearly unrooted and leaning against each other.
— Peter Heller, The Dog Stars
My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came of his skin. it was like there had never been any hole in my chest. i was perfect- not healed but as if there never had been a wound in the first place.
— Stephenie Meyer, New Moon
Healing is the hardest thing you'll ever do.' ~Quinn
— C.J. Redwine, Deliverance
We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.
— Alice  Miller
Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength and weakness, of one’s capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself.
— Caroline Myss
You can't sweep something broken into a bag and call it whole. It takes repair.
— Paula Heller Garland
Homeopathy is the true and very advanced healing science much beyond the scope of current methods of chemical analysis and interpretation.
— Aditya Sardana, Ayahuasca - The Sacred Psychedelic!!
Finding the right healing path requires all or nothing. Once you place conditions on healing, all you can achieve is conditional healing.
— Caroline Myss, Why People Don't Heal and How They Can: A Practical Programme for Healing Body, Mind and Spirit
In order to heal themselves, people must recognize, first, that they have an inner guidance deep within and, second, that they can trust it.
— Shakti Gawain
A deep wound inside him began to heal. And he suddenly knew that being separated from this woman would only bring him a certain sadness.
— Catherine DePasquale, A Future Spring
[M]y only route was trust: trust in a *deeper* wisdom, the wisdom responsible for making my heart beat, my eyes shine, my hair grow; trust in the infinite intelligence responsible for making my cells replicate; trust in the part of me that is awake when I'm asleep at night.
— Brandon Bays, The Journey: A Practical Guide to Healing Your Life and Setting Yourself Free
Inside, I found three things: a silver mirror, a silk handkerchief, and a glass flask of ointment. These items will help you on your journey. use them when need be. If you ever lose faith in yourself, the mirror will show your inner beauty. In case your reputation is stained, the handkerchief will remind you of how pure your heart is. As for the balm, it will heal your wounds, both inside and outside.
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
Unhealthy behavior is actually common among doctors, who tend to know a lot about medicine but very little about health.
— Sol Luckman, Snooze: A Story of Awakening
We are not the only ones affected by our recovery. The spiritual awakening heals the world one person at a time.
— Marta Mrotek, Miracle in Progress: A Handbook for Holistic Recovery
When one becomes centered in love, then and only then will all paths become open to them
— Timothy Moran, The Twelve Messages of the Spiritual Heart: A Novel of Transformation
If it is the will of God for man to be sick, no one in history violated the will of God more than Jesus. Just as God desires all men to be saved, He also desires all men to be healed.
— Praying Medic, Divine Healing Made Simple: Simplifying the supernatural to make healing & miracles a part of your everyday life
Every heart needs healing.
— Veronica L. Anderson
Sometimes therapy takes years and years, and sometimes it can happen in one miraculous instant, a lifetime of doubt and self-hatred healed in a moment of astounding love.
— Mia Sheridan, Stinger
Your job is not to judge. Your job is not to figure out if someone deserves something. Your job is to lift the fallen, to restore the broken, and to heal the hurting.
— Joel Osteen
This is how the soul heals. it thaws out bit by bit, the way the ground warms after a hard winter. you notive the sun or hear the whippoorwill calling across the flats. You sweep your porch, go drink coffee in the shade of the trumpet vines. You have days where you want to lay down and die, but what you learn is this: As long as there's somebody left on this earth who loves you, it's reason enough to stay alive. You don't give in to your broke heart-- you just let the wide, cracked space fill up again.
— Michael Lee West, American Pie
A body can't run from what they done. They carry it with them inside. It fester and spread like poison if it's buried. It gotta be out in the air where it can heal.
— Susan Crandall, Whistling Past the Graveyard
There is no elegance in hate, but there is tremendous beauty in the unintended revenge of living well and being happy.
— Victoria Malin Gregory
Your mental problem becomes a solution when it can be used to solve problems.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I can always recognize the fellow wounded.
— Suzette Mayr, Monoceros
Want more energy? Drink water. Sleep deep. Love passionately. Eat clean. Forgive completely. Create something new.
— Toni Sorenson
It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.
— Elizabeth George
Healing is active involvement in your process, ongoing.
— S. Kelley Harrell, Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion
To take such a complex creature, on who was meant for God and is destroyed by sin, and attempt to understand how the development of that creature can be affected by hideous trauma is to attempt the impossible.
— Diane Mandt Langberg, Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse
There's an undeniable healing power in telling the truth to someone who validates you by simply listening . . . honor washes away the stench of shame.
— Jo Ann Fore, When a Woman Finds Her Voice: Overcoming Life's Hurts & Using Your Story to Make a Difference
An unceasingly grateful life can easily heal from the wounds of hurt and setback. It can also easily shed resentment, hate, and bitterness…
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
As we come into balance within ourselves and the all that is, we balance the past, future and our Earth.
— Jan Porter, "Soul Skin, Woman have you had enough?" fiction by; Jan Porter
Time heals all wounds. Il tempo guarisce tutti i mali. It’s been said time and time again, but what they don’t talk about are the jagged scars left behind. What they don’t tell you is that sometimes, when ignored, the wounds fester
— J.M. Darhower, Sempre: Redemption
Being broken isn't the worst thing. We can be mended and put together again. We don’t have to be ashamed of our past. We can embrace the history that gives us value, and see our cracks as beautiful.
— Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
Harboring anger, hatred and resentment within you, is containing the venom within you. You are the only one affected...
— Jacqueline Ripstein, The Art of HealingArt: The Keys to Power and Awareness
You think you can avoid [pain,] but you actually can't. If you do, you just get sicker, or you feel more pain. But if you can speak it, if you can write it, if you can paint it, it is very healing.
— Alice Walker
I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge new and strong, that the water will heal me.
— Veronica Roth, Insurgent
Colors are vibrating light energies, each “color ray” produces a sound that affects matter.
— Jacqueline Ripstein, The Art of HealingArt: The Keys to Power and Awareness
For the first time in ages I felt a tiny pinprick in my heart--not like it was breaking, but like something small and unseen had begun sewing it closed again.
— Leslea Tash, Bird After Bird
A song for you  A song for me Is how we relate our life to be
— Patty Smith, The Children's Hour
This book attempts to record a journey to restoration that applies to ordinary people like you and I. It is a shot towards healing. A step headed for a new consciousness. It emerges from a moment in time where all seems lost.
— Phindiwe Nkosi, Behind the Hospital
Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ's having healed his mother-in-law.
— Samuel Butler
Healing stories are magickal tales born from personal tribulation and victory, which are then shared.
— S. Kelley Harrell, Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism
I do not claim to be a healer: only God is the Healer.
— Phindiwe Nkosi, Behind the Hospital
When my heart yearn for silence in a crowd full of cheerful people, thats not the lonliness i seek but want to feel the rustling of my abandoned desires pouring upon the broken hearts. All the noise i want to here now is the symphony of love and of healing.
— Annie Ali
Time does not heal wounds. It's a body's ritual that does. The instinctual cleansing with rain or other waters, the application of salves. Despite the sting. Even neglected, the body begins to take care. To repair itself. Blood clots, tissues regenerate, flesh scars. Soon, the thin white line is the only evidence of the pain. It is the body, not time. Time does nothing except create distance between the body and that which caused it harm. Recollection of fear can be stronger than the original fear itself. Similarly, bliss is sometimes more vivid when recollected. How else do you explain longing? Longing for what has already passed. That's the real pain. But you insisted, you pried with your fingers to see. You retuned to me after I turned away. You made me recollect for you, collect again and again for you, interrupting the healing with your curiosity. Now that I have given you the words, you may long for them. You may miss me. You may try to find the notes to the song again and again and won't be able to find them. Perhaps, the wounds I made will already have begun to scar. Maybe the body will have begun its ritual of forgetting. I told you not to ask for haunted, not to ask me to recollect. Because recollection is like tearing at closed wounds. Like pealing back the careful tissue put there by the body to make it safe. And because remembered pain is always worse than the original pain, because this time it is expected. This time you already know how much it will hurt.
— T. Greenwood
I've always told people that for each person there is a sentence--a series of words--which has the power to destroy him. When Fat told me about Leon Stone I realized (this came years after the first realization) that another sentence exists, another series of words, which will heal the person. If you're lucky you will get the second; but you can be certain of getting the first: that is the way it works.
— Philip K. Dick, VALIS
But sometimes things happen that no one hopes for. Events that cause everything you've worked towards, the life you've carefully constructed piece by piece, to come tumbling down all around you. No one is to blame, but you're left with a wound you can't heal on your own and can't believe you'll ever learn to accept, so you struggle to escape the pain. Only time can heal wounds as deep as that - a lot of time - and all you can really do is place yourself in its hands and try to consider the passing of each day a victory. You tough it out moment by moment, hour by hour, and after some weeks or months you begin to see signs of recovery. Slowly the wound heals into a scar.
— Ryū Murakami, Audition
There's great peace in surrendering to principles
— Stefan Molyneux
Through depression and many other dark low emotions, our Light dims and our immune system declines along with it. White blood cells are the physical Light of our body.Colors can be used to heal, restore and to uplift us.
— Jacqueline Ripstein, The Art of HealingArt: The Keys to Power and Awareness
Healing comes by faith. Faith is destroyed by doubt. If you doubt whether God wants people to be healed, you won’t see them healed.
— Praying Medic, Divine Healing Made Simple: Simplifying the supernatural to make healing & miracles a part of your everyday life
Healing is not healed.Numbed is not healed.Healing takes time.Healing takes patience.Healing takes love.Healing sometimes triggers anger or sadness or sorrow or guilt or regret.Long suppressed.Long unaddressedSo we make up that healing is wrong,useless and to be avoidedAnd we head back to numbingAnd look for love and connectionWith the numbed and suppressed,unaddressed and repressed...Give space for the damageGive space for the healingLet the healing begin and begin and begin.........
— Dave Rudbarg
It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It feels less like a wound and more like a poultice.
— Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller
Hemlock's attentions had not only healed Aelfric's body of its wounds but also given him curious sensitivity. Aside from the voice in his mind, he felt things in the natural surroundings: the presence of beasts, the whispers of trees to the overcast skies, anger in the earth and sea. Ravens followed him around as they did wolves. And he had developed a rough ability to see in the dark.
— F.T. McKinstry, Ascarion
There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and a few glands.
— Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well
I kissed him and let that emotion consume me, to settle the pain that had risen inside my soul—to heal the pain I knew he felt. I let it consume and override the doubt that all we really needed was one another. That this empty hole could be filled with the love we felt for one another.
— Cassandra Giovanni, Faded Perfection
Faraday has the Cage, Tesla has the Coil and Magee has the Sandwich!
— Steven Magee
All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take as truth whatever our parents and other influentials have said about us during our childhood, whether these messages are communicated verbally, physically, or silently.
— Heyward Bruce Ewart III, AM I BAD? Recovering From Abuse
What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with an impenetrable layer of mould, some delicate blades of grass, young and tender, were already pushing their way upwards, destined to take root and send out living shoots so effectively that her all-consuming grief would soon be lost and forgotten. The wound was healing from inside.
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
How you react to the issue, IS the issue.
— Habib Sadeghi, Within
And yet, I was scared of falling asleep, because the moment I fell asleep my wounds would heal and right then I didn’t want that to happen. Right then, I found a strange but real comfort in the pain.
— Matt Haig, The Humans
It appears that DDNOS is the intentional goal of these abusers, but DID sometimes results from a failure of programming. In DDNOS, the ANP is always present, even when another part is in control of the behavior and feelings.
— Alison Miller, Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
For some reason, I thought Victor could heal that wound better than anyone else. It's strange to think that this vampire, the embodiment of all my hatred, could act like a suture.
— J.A. London, Darkness Before Dawn
It is important to learn about being multiple, and what works for their healing, from your client. To work with the alters, rather than trying to get the ANP to control the rest of the personality system.
— Alison Miller, Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
Regardless of where I have been, I choose to step into my loving.
— Habib Sadeghi, Within
Throughout the history of medicine, including the shamanic healing traditions, the Greek tradition of Asclepius, Aristotle and Hippocrates, and the folk and religious healers, the imagination has been used to diagnose disease.
— Jeanne Achterberg, Imagery in Healing: Shamanism and Modern Medicine
What issues sidetrack you from your mission to get well?
— Shirley Corder, Strength Renewed: Meditations for Your Journey through Breast Cancer
If God is love, and nothing imperfect can exist in the presence of God; then healing is simply the process of bringing love to the places within us that are hurting.
— Habib Sadeghi, Within
The United States alone sports an inventive spectrum of psychotherapeutic sects and schools: Freudians, Jungians, Kleinians; narrative, interpersonal, transpersonal therapists; cognitive, behavioral, cognitive-behavioral practitioners; Kohutians Rogerians, Kernbergians; aficionados of control mastery, hypnotherapy, neurolingustic programming, eye movement desensitization- that list does not even complete the top twenty. The disparate doctrines of these proliferative, radiating divisions, often reach mutually exclusive conclusions about therapeutic propriety: talk about this, not that; answer questions, or don’t; sit facing the patient, next to the patient, behind the patient. Yet no approach has ever proven its method superior to any other. Strip away a therapist’s orientation, the journal he reads, the books on his shelves, the meetings he attends- the cognitive framework his rational mind demands – and what is left to define the psychotherapy he conducts?Himself. The person of the therapist is the converting catalyst, not his order or credo, not his spatial location in the room, not his exquisitely chosen words or denominational silences. So long as the rules of a therapeutic system do not hinder limbic transmission - a critical caveat - they remain inconsequential, neocortical distractions. The dispensable trappings of dogma may determine what a therapist thinks he is doing, what he talks about when he talks about therapy, but the agent of change is who he is. (186/7)
— Thomas Lewis, A General Theory of Love
Healing requires a legitimated, credible and culturally appropriate system.
— Mildred Blaxter
Perhaps the most liberating moment in my life was when I realized that my self-loathing was not a product of my inadequacy but, rather, a product of my thoughts.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them.
— Ann Aguirre, Horde
A healer is someone who seeks to be the light that she wishes she had in her darkest moments.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
Survivors often develop an exaggerated need for control in their adult relationships. It’s the only way they feel safe. They also struggle with commitment—saying yes in a relationship means being trapped in yet another family situation where abuse might take place. So the survivor panics as her relationship gets closer, certain that something terrible is going to happen. She pulls away, rejects, or tests her partner all the time.
— Laura   Davis, Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Is a Survivor of Child Sexual Abuse
An apology can be a wonderful thing so long as it is infrequent and from the heart. However, beware of the person who justifies bad behavior with apologies. For them it is a means to an end, and quite often at your expense.
— Gary   Hopkins
Awareness born of love is the only force that can bring healing and renewal. Out of our love for another person, we become more willing to let our old identities wither and fall away, and enter a dark night of the soul, so that we may stand naked once more in the presence of the great mystery that lies at the core of our being. This is how love ripens us -- by warming us from within, inspiring us to break out of our shell, and lighting our way through the dark passage to new birth.
— John Welwood
I would rather devote myself to what I always did - trying to heal people. That is my way of healing myself.
— Kavita Kané, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen
Let us give future generations the gift of Earth citizenship by first giving it to ourselves.
— Ilchi Lee, Earth Citizen: Recovering Our Humanity
I don't believe that there are any situations or any person on this planet who can not be helped, whose life can not be made better. And many of these situations can be cured. If your doctor does not know something, it does not mean that the knowledge does not exist elsewhere. No body is beyond hope. No body!
— Natasha Campbell-McBride
Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others.
— Ace Antonio Hall
I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.
— Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
She held out her hands, cupped and holding a small plant.'The power to heal is the power to destroy,' she said with the faintest smile.
— F.T. McKinstry, Crowharrow
…if you have someone who wants to heal, sometime they will respond to the unconventional. Their minds are more open to healing, so their bodies become more willing too. I believe that medication, while a wonderful thing, has its limits. That there are answers to be found in the unconventional.
— Daisy Whitney
Healing is not a ‘black and white’ process, it’s not even a ‘grey’ process, it more like a; ‘pinky, yellowy, orangy, greeny, bluey and purply’ process with a hint of ‘gold and silver’ and a huge jar of ‘faith
— Wayne  Lee, The Art of the Intuitive Healer: Genuine Real Life Case Studies of Intuitive Healing That Will Captivate Your Heart
When envy lies within a woman's heart it cuts into her soul & gives her a toxic spirit. It is truly something to be disgusted by. I have experienced it so much in my own life that I can sense the energy of envy without any communication from the other person. It lingers in the air to pollute your environment. Envy is a brutal force of bad vibes sucking the love right out of your heart.
— Bindu Envy In Women
Healing is the gateway to peace and peace is the path to passion and purpose.
— Saba
The unrelenting grip of Soldier’s Syndrome slips finger by slow finger. The marrow’s been affected—emotional leukemia at the deepest level. Transplants of love and friendship aid healing, yet time is still key, and the clock never ticks fast enough. Eternity gains perspective when seconds feel like years. How long have I been gone? Six eternities and counting.
— Chila Woychik, On Being a Rat and Other Observations
I am here, come closer,” the old donkey said with her eyes. “I will mother you.
— Katherine  Dunn, Misfits of Love: Healing Conversations in the Barnyard
Life comes and goes. …If you know that, you know it all.
— Sandra Harner, Ema's Odyssey: Shamanism for Healing and Spiritual Knowledge
You are the one who takes the peace away from yourself. You are the one who’s harming yourself.
— Sandra Harner, Ema's Odyssey: Shamanism for Healing and Spiritual Knowledge
None of my mental activities for the past twenty-four hours might be called thinking. I had allowed my body to take charge. It knew far more about escaping and healing than I did.
— Geoffrey Household, Rogue Male
The Waorani carry out a similar diet with their arrow poison, called curare or, in their language, oomae. This is another amazing product of the indigenous science, a most sophisticated technology that the Waorani extrapolated from an ancient myth.
— Jonathon Miller Weisberger, Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon
You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.
— John Eldredge, Love and War: Finding the Marriage You've Dreamed Of
Eating disorders are prevalent among women who were sexually abused as children. They seem to have components of other symptoms such as obsessions, compulsions, avoidance of food, and anxiety, and they primarily include a distorted body image and feelings of body shame.For some women, eating disorders are related to the loss of control over their bodies during the sexual abuse and serve as a means of feeling in control of their bodies now. Eating disorders can also be indicative of the developmental stage and age at which the sexual abuse began. Women with anorexia and bulimia report that they were sexually abused either at the age of puberty or during puberty, when their bodies were beginning to develop and they felt a great deal of body shame from the abuse. By contrast, women with compulsive eating report that the sexual abuse occurred before the age of puberty; they used food for comfort.
— Karen A. Duncan, Healing from the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse: The Journey for Women
Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body.
— Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not a Disease - It's a Survival Mechanism
The only thing we need to heal is the belief that we are not already whole.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.
— Herbert M. Shelton, Fasting for Renewal of Life
If you feel like a failure in any area of your life, then you are in need of some self-forgiveness.
— Yancy Lael, Soulful Skincare: The ultimate guide to radically transforming your complexion
When i move through my pain, it clears the path for a new dawn, a new day. It is in these moments, i feel the sun rising on the horizon of hope, in my soul.
— Jaeda DeWalt
Don't forget that healing takes time. Don't expect to try meditation and a new skincare line and end up with perfect skin in a week. Give yourself the gift of time and patience. The body is a complicated, miraculous system and each body processes change in its own time.
— Yancy Lael, Soulful Skincare: The ultimate guide to radically transforming your complexion
Wash, wash, wash. Tone, tone, tone. Strip the oil, then add an oil-free moisturizer to replace the oil. This is how we've been taught to care for our skin. It seems a little crazy when you see it in print, right? Take all that oil out and add chemicals to replace it. Nuts!
— Yancy Lael, Soulful Skincare: The ultimate guide to radically transforming your complexion
I had to learn the hard way that treating the skin like an A-bomb drop zone is completely counterproductive. And through my healing journey, I've discovered something miraculous: that moisturizers can heal in unimaginable ways.
— Yancy Lael, Soulful Skincare: The ultimate guide to radically transforming your complexion
Don't rely on labels to give you the information you need. Trust only the ingredient list and your gut.
— Yancy Lael, Soulful Skincare: The ultimate guide to radically transforming your complexion
Two broken people don't make a whole! Without U, there is no us! Lord, I'm so thankful that U r the U in us!
— Evinda Lepins, A Cup of Hope for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power
If you look up the meaning of healing you can find many different definitions. There’s the adjective, noun, and verb (with and without objects). For argument’s sake we will use the verb. Still there are many definitions. The one that fits here is to free from evil; cleanse; purify; to heal the soul.Free from evil, even if you didn’t know it was there.
— Mandi Lynn, Essence
Before my first visit to Waorani territory, I was introduced to don Casimiro Mamallacta, a traditional Kichwa healer and family man living in the outskirts of the jungle town of Archidona, by his daughter Mercedes, whom I met at the Jatun Sacha biological station. During the years that I was collaborating on the demarcation effort and in between the work sessions, I lived with don Casimiro's family.
— Jonathon Miller Weisberger, Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon
Why do I take a blade and slash my arms? Why do I drink myself into a stupor? Why do I swallow bottles of pills and end up in A&E having my stomach pumped? Am I seeking attention? Showing off? The pain of the cuts releases the mental pain of the memories, but the pain of healing lasts weeks. After every self-harming or overdosing incident I run the risk of being sectioned and returned to a psychiatric institution, a harrowing prospect I would not recommend to anyone.So, why do I do it? I don't. If I had power over the alters, I'd stop them. I don't have that power. When they are out, they're out. I experience blank spells and lose time, consciousness, dignity. If I, Alice Jamieson, wanted attention, I would have completed my PhD and started to climb the academic career ladder. Flaunting the label 'doctor' is more attention-grabbing that lying drained of hope in hospital with steri-strips up your arms and the vile taste of liquid charcoal absorbing the chemicals in your stomach. In most things we do, we anticipate some reward or payment. We study for status and to get better jobs; we work for money; our children are little mirrors of our social standing; the charity donation and trip to Oxfam make us feel good. Every kindness carries the potential gift of a responding kindness: you reap what you sow. There is no advantage in my harming myself; no reason for me to invent delusional memories of incest and ritual abuse. There is nothing to be gained in an A&E department.
— Alice Jamieson, Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind
You don’t have any problems — only this much has to be understood. This very moment you can drop all problems. because they are your creations. Have another look at your problems: the deeper you look, the smaller they will appear. Go on looking at them and by and by they will start disappearing. Go on gazing and suddenly you will find there is emptiness — a beautiful emptiness surrounds you. Nothing to do, nothing to be, because you are already that.
— Osho
The healing process is best described as a spiral. Survivors go through the stages once, sometimes many times; sometimes in one order, sometimes in another. Each time they hit a stage again, they move up the spiral: they can integrate new information and a broader range of feelings, utilize more resources, take better care of themselves, and make deeper changes.” Allies in Healing by Laura Davis
— Laura Hough, Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Is a Survivor of Child Sexual Abuse
If you just set people in motion they'll heal themselves.
— Gabrielle Roth, Maps to Ecstasy
In addition to reaching out for help, you will also need to reach within yourself. Your biggest ally will be your emotions. Through them, you will learn more about what really happened to you, how the abuse affected you, and what you need to do in order to heal. Your emotions will enable you to reclaim the self you long ago hid away.
— Beverly Engel, The Right To Innocence
Time is a double-edged sword: while it might heal all wounds
—  it also kills all the healed.
The shame, embarrassment, feeling of low self-worth, and scores of "labels" we give ourselves are not fitting. I am beginning to see how I had no control over the situation. He was a big man, I was a little boy.
— Charles L. Bailey Jr., In the Shadow of the Cross
Make your pain productive and you can transform tragedy into triumph.
— Jaeda DeWalt
It wasn't a sign of weakness to tell what happened to me. I feel guilt no longer, only regret. The other emotions are coming around too. How much further do I need to go? I'm not sure, but there is comfort in the fact that I am in the hands of expert guides, both in the doctor's office and at home with Sue.
— Charles L. Bailey Jr., In the Shadow of the Cross
A Smoothie a day keeps Big Pharma away
— Gary   Hopkins
Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life.
— Herbert M. Shelton, Rubies in the Sand
The task ahead of you is never as great as the power within you.
— Fran ''Mystiblu'' Hafey, A Season of Love: Stories to Help Heal, Grow and Find Peace Within
As Lynn began getting psychologically better, she took me to a variety of sites. She taught me how to read trail markers. In the end, Lynn's stories could not be denied. She was not only a victim, she wanted badly to heal. As her experiences were told and worked through, as she slowly began to come to grips with her past, the personalities within her have slowly begun to heal.
— Lynn Hersha, Secret Weapons: How Two Sisters Were Brainwashed To Kill For Their Country
Nu exista pe lume leac care sa tamaduiasca ceea ce nu tamaduieste fericirea/ There is no cure in this world which heals what happiness does not heal.
— Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
Two Immeasurable Things: The healing power of love and the destructive power of hate.
— Steve Maraboli
We cannot be damaged into health.
— Herbert M. Shelton, Rubies in the Sand
The stories in this book link an ancient story with the children's stories. Rather than medical case reports based on certainty of what scientists currently understand, they are simply an attempt to be faithful to what I have heard. In this sense, they continue Jesus' commissioned work of revealing that there is a realm that we cannot yet fully understand. The greatest gift in my life has been in linking the ancient story and the children's stories to my own...As I sit by the beds of these children, I have seen God's love made manifest in this descending way. I have seen Jesus Christ come again and again and again to bring peace and to link the children's stories with His own.
— Diane M. Komp - Pediatric Oncologist
That which wounds, shall heal.
— Apollo
So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and a healing art was a logical development. The system of medicine, as we know it today, was a logical development out of the fallacy that healing power resides in extrinsic sources.
— Herbert M. Shelton, Rubies in the Sand
Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.
— Herbert M. Shelton, Rubies in the Sand
As I let it out, layer by layer, Dr. Driscoll helped with the bumps and valleys. He knew just how much to draw out of me and how much I could handle. He is such an expert in his profession. He told me that the guilt I was feeling was not guilt, but regret. Guilt is a good thing. It is a mechanism by which we shouldn't make the same mistake twice. If you do something questionable, then the next chance you get to do it, guilt should stop you. I had no guilt. I had regrets, many regrets, but no guilt. It took some convincing, but he prevailed. There was always a nagging in my head, that if only I had had the guts to kill Neary myself, it would have stopped him from harming others, but that was not to be as a small boy. It does hurt that, maybe, just maybe, if I had carried out one of my many plans to kill him and myself then I could have saved victims younger than I. As victims come forward from almost all the churches where he served—and some are twenty—five plus years my junior—I feel that they would have been spared, if only I hadn't chickened out as a boy. Therein lies the answer; I was a little boy, a ten—year—old boy. Other victims of Neary were as young as six.
— Charles L. Bailey Jr., In the Shadow of the Cross
Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.
— Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
The place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. it's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light.
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.
— Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
This was once Mazama, I kept reminding myself. This was once a mountain that stood nearly 12,000 feet tall and then had its heart removed. This was once a wasteland of lava and pumice and ash. This was once an empty bowl that took hundreds of years to fill. But hard as I tried, I couldn't see them in my mind's eye. Not the mountain or the wasteland or the empty bowl. They simply were not there anymore. There was only the stillness and the silence of that water: what a mountain and a wasteland and an empty bowl turned into after the healing process.
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
I show my scars so that others know they can heal.
— Rhachelle Nicol', Sunday Mourning
We each have the innate ability to heal ourselves. To empower ourselves with natural solutions, instead of succumbing to life-altering chemicals. There's a time and place for pharmaceuticals, but it shouldn't be the first answer, nor the only form treatment.
— Dana Arcuri
You have a great body. It is an intricate piece of technology and a sophisticated super-computer. It runs on peanuts and even regenerates itself. Your relationship with your body is one of the most important relationships you’ll ever have. And since repairs are expensive and spare parts are hard to come by, it pays to make that relationship good.
— Steve Goodier
Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.
— Anthony Liccione
Healing takes place when grievances are given ample and patient space to be acknowledged, when there is transparency and honesty, when everybody is given the chance to be heard, when nobody is excluded, when people can accept the energy of the conflict and use it as a major opportunity for growth.
— Franco Santoro
Like night dreams, stores often use symbolic language, therefore bypassing the ego and persona, and traveling straight to the spirit and soul who listen for the ancient and universal instructions embedded there. Because of this process, stories can teach, correct errors, lighten the heart and the darkness, provide psychic shelter, assist transformation and heal wounds.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, The Gift of Story: A Wise Tale About What is Enough
The Church is full of Hypocrites!" Yes, it is, and thank God for that, it means the church is doing its job. The church wants hypocrites, adulterers, thieves, and more, for the church is where we receive healing. To condemn the church because it has failed members is to condemn a hospital because it's full of sick people. All are welcome; you are welcome here.
— Lee  Goff
Healing is achieved through turning on the light of your soul and allowing it to shine.
— Janet Gallagher Nestor
Shaman is a spiritual shuttle between three realms of existence: Heaven, Mankind and Earth. He pierces through inter-dimensional veils in order to heal the parts and unite the whole.
— Lada Ray, The Earth Shifter
Hiding a wound can cause a serious infection without healing. It has to be exposed and washed. Sure, the cleansing may cause pain at first—but, in the end, it brings healing, as well as relief.
— Tessa Emily Hall, Purple Moon
Being in the depths of the ocean was like being in the womb, suspended in a liquid environment, listening to my own breathing and heartbeat. Whether it was the serenity and security of being surrounded by this living liquid, or the total distraction of the adventure of the unknown which took me far away from the daily weight of the child abuse and violence at home, I sank beneath the surface, and if only for those few moments, was free.
— Tom  North, True North: The Shocking Truth about "Yours, Mine and Ours"
I want you to learn that if you don't keep picking at old wounds, over time they will eventually heal. Oh sure, sometimes they will leave a nasty, jagged scar, but at least it won't hurt like it did anymore, and if you don't look at it, sometimes you can almost forget it's there.
— K. Martin Beckner, Chips of Red Paint
There are no healing agents.
— Herbert M. Shelton, Rubies in the Sand
Bit by bit, Dr. Driscoll helped me to peel away the layers of protection I had built up over the years. The process was not that unlike the peeling of an onion, which also makes us cry. It has been a painful journey, and I don't now when it will end, when I can say, “OK, it's over.” Maybe never. Maybe sooner than I know. I recently told Dr. Driscoll that I feel the beginnings of feeling OK, that this is the right path.
— Charles L. Bailey Jr., In the Shadow of the Cross
The Lord chose to give me back my life, not because I deserved it, but because he had work for me to do.
— Shirley Corder, Strength Renewed: Meditations for Your Journey through Breast Cancer
There is a fine line between paranoia and sensibly caring for our already overburdened bodies.
— Shirley Corder, Strength Renewed: Meditations for Your Journey through Breast Cancer
Our wounds are not a measure of one individual’s sad fate, but an indication of our unity with others.
— Lynn C. Tolson, Beyond the Tears: A True Survivor's Story
Writing therapy is my form of healing. Try and detach yourself from painful memories by infusing characters and then stepping back.
— Phil Wohl
No one heals himself by wounding another.
— Ambrose of Milan
Many survivors insist they’re not courageous: ‘If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.’ ‘If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared’... Most of us have it mixed up. You don’t start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.
— Laura   Davis
The most important thing in defining child sexual abuse is the experience of the child. It takes very little for a child’s world to be devastated. A single experience can have a profound impact on a child’s life. A man sticks his hand in his daughter’s underpants, or strokes his son’s penis once, and for that child, the world is never the same again.
— Laura Hough, Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Is a Survivor of Child Sexual Abuse
Although healing brings a better life, it also threatens to permanently alter life as you’ve known it. Your relationships, your position in the world, even your sense of identity may change. Coping patterns that have served you for a lifetime will be called into question. When you make the commitment to heal, you risk losing much of what is familiar. As a result one part of you may want to heal while another resists change.
— Laura   Davis, The Courage to Heal Workbook: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Things get worse before they get better, but this is a worse that feels too big.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up
— Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment.
— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
The observer self, a part of who we really are, is that part of us that is watching both our false self and our True Self. We might say that it even watches us when we watch. It is our Consciousness, it is the core experience of our Child Within. It thus cannot be watched—at least by anything or any being that we know of on this earth. It transcends our five senses, our co-dependent self and all other lower, though necessary parts, of us.	Adult children may confuse their observer self with a kind of defense they may have used to avoid their Real Self and all of its feelings. One might call this defense “false observer self” since its awareness is clouded. It is unfocused as it “spaces” or “numbs out.” It denies and distorts our Child Within, and is often judgmental.
— Charles L. Whitfield, Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families
The part that needs healing is our personal life. Personal life has nothing to do with work. Besides, what better way of healing than to find our center of self-sovereignty? Isn't that the whole point of healing?
— Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Symptoms of illness and distress, plus your feelings about them, can be viewed as messengers coming to tell you something important about your body or about your mind. In the old days, if a king didn't like the message he was given, he would sometimes have the messenger killed. This is tantamount to suppressing your symptoms or your feelings because they are unwanted. Killing the messenger and denying the message or raging against it are not intelligent ways of approaching healing. The one thing we don't want to do is to ignore or rupture the essential connections that can complete relevant feedback loops and restore self-regulation and balance. Our real challenge when we have symptoms is to see if we can listen to their message and really hear them and take them to heart, that is, make the connection fully.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
John 14:6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth,and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,but by me.Psalm 45:1My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
— Tamara Sanguinetti, He is The Prince of Peace
Love sustains us in our challenges, in our search for truth, in our quest for happiness.
— Jerry L. Ainsworth, Love & Health: Twelve Physical, Mental And Spiritual Ingredients Of Health
Write about a terrible experience until you find value in having gone through it. Then you will appreciate every dark hour.
— Jan Marquart, Kate's Way
We are going home (we are Home, already and always). Home on this earth is being all levels of our awareness or consciousness in our own unique fashion. (138)
— Charles L. Whitfield, Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families
If we feel unloved, it is difficult to truly love. If we feel rejected, it is difficult to truly accept. If we feel afraid, it is difficult to truly live. If we feel abandoned, it is difficult to truly belong. If we feel despair, it is difficult to truly hope. If we feel insignificant, it is difficult to truly care. It is difficult to draw water from an empty well. Without God, all of these things are difficult, if not nigh impossible. Thank God, that in Christ, all things are possible, for he is the hope for the beggary of our soul and the remedy for a broken, fragmented world.
— Mac MacKenzie
Those old sayings about Give It Time, and Time is a Healer depend on just whose time it is.
— Jeanette Winterson
I may distance myself from God from time to time, wandering off in the ignorance of my self-absorbed preoccupations and attitudesBut God is never far off. Never distant. Never remote.He is close enough to hear the raw, unbridled "fuck" in my silent prayer of anguish.Close enough to feel the groaning angst and tension in my gut that oft threatens to rend me to pieces. Close enough to hear my heart slam itself in abandon against the walls of this temple of skin in holy desperation; clutching at the veil that dulls and distorts my vision. Close enough to catch me as I stumble in my blind and weary state yet again and again and again.Yes, He is close. She is never far off. God is my faithful friend and traveling companion, though I see Him not yet with these orbs of flesh.
— Mac MacKenzie, Diary Of An Arts Farmer: Exploring the Intersection of Life, Faith, Art and Community
With organization comes empowerment.
— Lynda Peterson