#recovery

"Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears."

"It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it."

"Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole."

"I am a work in progress."

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

"So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis"

"But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness."

"Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth."

"A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew."

"Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…"

"Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps"

"Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive."

"You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been."

"You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. We were created to be victorious."

"We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves."

"Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously."

"History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty."

"A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller."

"Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace."

"We must be content to grow slowly. Most of us will still barely be at the beginning of our recovery by the time we die. But that is better than killing ourselves pretending to be healthy."