All Quotes By Tag: Healing-the-past

“Our past offers us two choices … live IN it or live FROM it.”

“Our past offers us a choice … live IN it or live FROM it.”

“Addiction is only a hopeless attempt to deal with the pain of living cutoff from who we really are.”

“Survivors often feel their emotions are attacking them. Surprised when they arrive out of no where. Overwhelmed by their force. Scared they will change our lives. Our healing journey helps us realize ALL our emotions are allies when we let them guide us to life-changing choices.”

“It isn’t violence that can break through our hearts. It isn’t force that binds us and keeps us together. Only tenderness has the power to accomplish what the fullness of love desires to do. Tenderness that approaches us little by little, and handles our feelings with the deepest affection and delight. Tenderness that is willing to wait for the right time until we are ready and we are no longer afraid.”

“Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history.”

“Healing starts the moment you accept the truth about what has happened. But healing doesn’t come quickly. When you know that death or pain has come, you face a moment when you stare that pain in the eyes and declare that you will not be defeated by it. Then you turn away and grieve.” -Chris Pepple, Without a Voice”

“My dear sister, you can’t escape God, and you can’t escape your skeletons in the closet. They will always be there until you take them out from behind those dusty old moth-eaten coats. Your exterior facade of ‘everything is alright’ only works for a little while, and then the cracks begin to show. You can only hide behind yourself for so long. You can’t keep running!”

“You didn’t just automatically become a Christian, did you? You weren’t made a Christian by just going to church. Just like you are not made a car by sitting in a garage all day! You have to make a decision.”

“Heal a broken heart to the core By openning it up so even more.”

“Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.”

“Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can’t you see who I truly am?”

“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.From an Irish headstone”

“Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.”

“Hold yourself back, or heal yourself back together. You decide.”