Healing Process Quotes

“First, the physiological symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder have been brought within manageable limits. Second, the person is able to bear the feelings associated with traumatic memories. Third, the person has authority over her memories; she can elect both to remember the trauma and to put memory aside. Fourth, the memory of the traumatic event is a coherent narrative, linked with feeling. Fifth, the person's damaged self-esteem has been restored. Sixth, the person's important relationships have been reestablished. Seventh and finally, the person has reconstructed a coherent system of meaning and belief that encompasses the story of trauma.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

“Then again, he supposed the healing process, in contrast to trauma, was gentle and slow... The soft closing of a door, rather than a slam.- John”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Reborn

“Recovery unfolds in three stages. The central task of the first stage is the establishment of safety. The central task of the second stage is remembrance and mourning. The central focus of the third stage is reconnection with ordinary life.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

“The damage and invisible scars of emotional abuse are very difficult to heal, because memories are imprinted on our minds and hearts and it takes time to be restored. Imprints of past traumas do not mean a person cannot change their future beliefs and behaviors. as people, we do not easily forget. However, as we heal, grieve, and let go, we become clear-minded and focused to live restore and emotionally healthy.”
― Dee Brown, Breaking Passive-Aggressive Cycles

“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

“Time heals nothing. It only brings other issues and tissues, and takes what is incurable or unacceptable out of the center of our attention.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual

“Psychotherapy isn't a twentieth-century artifice imposed on nature, but the reinstatement of a natural healing process.”
― Patricia Love, The Emotional Incest Syndrome: What to do When a Parent's Love Rules Your Life

“Sometimes when we judge ourselves we really put a wrench in the healing process, don’t we?
If you are going through hell, be kind to yourself. Please keep going”
― Jodi Aman

“I realised that I had healed when my mind could no longer entertain dark environments, emotions or mindsets.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“I am still learning. To unlearn.
The story of happily ever after.
The narrative of Love hurts.
The belief of sex means love.
That their infidelity is my casualty.
I’m still learning. To unlearn.
What people gave me as love.”
― Emmanuella Raphaelle

“The most profound healing I’ve ever experienced happened when I did less—when I stepped away from my routine, from productivity, from scrolling online, from painting on a smile. It happened when I sat with myself—feeling lost, alone, and wondering what next? Have patience. Healing and growth require you to relinquish the familiar in order to find a new freedom.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Healing is like a twisty pretzel, it's never linear. The process of healing is not something we need to be seeing as a staircase (one step higher after the other); but we need to see it as a part of life, an element of life, which is exactly what it is. Today you'll be better, tomorrow you'll be out of control, the next day you might be worse than that, and after that you'll be on top all over again. Like a pretzel. And there's salt all over it, too! But that's just like all other processes we go through, because life is a dance all over the dance floor; it's not an elevator ride. It's not one floor after the other. I mean, if it were that way then it wouldn't be worth living, would it? So, the next time you feel like you're losing your battle, remember that it's all about the salty pretzel: and at the end of the day, the pretzel is gonna be good. And you're gonna have a coke to wash it down. And you're gonna be okay.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“The thing with healing is that we often come back more resilient --stronger in the areas we once thought were broken.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Water is healing. It is one of the main elements of life. We are more than 70% water, so we respond to it readily. It doesn’t just clean our bodies. That’s the least of it. It cleans our etheric body. That’s why almost everyone feels better after a long shower.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“In the end, you will heal. Your wounds will fade into beautiful scars. Your heart will remember your pain as only a symbol of your strength. The thoughts of your struggles will turn into giggles. Because you are not meant to suffer forever. You will not die in sorrow. You will heal. You will heal.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“The thing with healing is that we often come back more resilient —stronger in the areas we once thought were broken.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“The healing process is instinctive. It knows precisely which event to return to in order to heal effectively. It knows which situations hold the most karma.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“The most profound healing I’ve ever experienced happened when I did less—when I stepped away from my routine, from productivity, from scrolling online, from painting on a smile. It happened when I sat with myself—feeling lost, alone and wondering what next? Have patience. Healing and growth require you to relinquish the familiar in order to find a new freedom.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Healing is understanding, accepting, rebuilding...”
― Paching Hoé Lambaiho, Words of the Shaman: 50 Quotes from Paching Hoé Lambaiho

“Shamanism uses trance states induced by rhythms, chants, or psychotropic plants to journey into spiritual worlds. Shamans consult spirits and guides to gain hidden knowledge and perform healing rituals to release emotional blockages. Vision quests, where the individual meditates alone in nature, are also common to reveal hidden aspects of ourselves.”
― Marie Chieze, Words of the Shaman: 50 Quotes from Paching Hoé Lambaiho