I believe the vital ingredient is love—a state of caring and compassion that is so deep and genuine that the barriers we erect around the self are transcended.

The soul is healed by being with children.” …

I had built such a wall between my experiences and how I felt about those experiences that I was incapable of reliving both simultaneously. I could talk about my traumas, even walk through them, but...

Go out and heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons and preach the kingdom. But do it for only one reason. Your motive should be an overwhelming love and compassion for those in...

Always remember, wherever you are, whether near or far, you had a mother who really, really loved you. The original mother. Once you’ve found your true inner guru you can never again be divided. Perfect...

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain – not deal with reality

Listen with your heart, not your brain. the heart only knows TRUTH!

Don’t let sickness, depression, and disease THUG YOU OUT. Eat healthier, think healthier, speak healthier, and more positively over your life. When you do so, you will soon begin to conquer your life and your...

The Lord chose to give me back my life, not because I deserved it, but because he had work for me to do.

Healing comes through God’s work, and God deals differently with us when we deal differently with him.

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...

The Anatomy of Conflict:If there is no communication then there is no respect. If there is no respect then there is no caring. If there is no caring then there is no understanding. If there...

With the change of the seasons, God reminds us that darkness always ends. Light always exists and will always return when missing. There is no night that doesn’t end. No nightmare from which you cannot...

Lift up your heads, ye people,lift up your faces, too,open your mouths to sing His praise,and the rain will fall on you.

Healing doesn’t mean forgetting or making the memories insignificant. Healing means refocusing

Guilt can interfere with our desires to move forward, to heal properly and to become a person who has the mental health and means of proper recompense.

That which wounds, shall heal.

In this life, we reap the results of everything that we do; even if the things that we do and the things that we become, are the direct results of circumstances that we could have...

Understanding is used too often as a convenient means to avoid and sidestep the process of acknowledging the hurts and wounds (which makes forgiving more effective). We cannot truly forgive until we admit that the...

If you’re not grateful for what you already have, why should you be blessed with more…

I felt it was time to be a little charitable, in terms of friendships and healing up old wounds,

If I want to get out of here, I have to be the one to save myself.

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.

A scar isn’t about the injury, it’s about the healing.

I love you” can stop bleeding faster than a Band-Aid. It’s true. It worked for me after I stabbed my grandpa.

You don’t need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them to complete their work. Don’t try to ‘aid’ nature. She doesn’t need your...

You can’t know this right now, but…your ragged, rugged honesty…your crazy, passionate, naked vulnerability…your trusting plunge into the unknown of Life at every turn…your journey of love and healing…these change your world, the world of...

Be brave, be strong!

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...

Winner: Getting up more times than life knocks you down

I will take away your means of escape.

And Beauvoir knew then the man was a saint. He’s been touched by any number of medical men and women. All healers, all well intentioned, some kind, some rough. All made it clear they wanted...

Your eyes see me in ways the mirror never could.

I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I...

You haunt my days and dreams.

there’s something about trauma to the mind, body and soul. One day your normal and the next your different; you don’t know what changed but you know nothing’s the same and all of a sudden...

All along it was not by stunts of glory, but by touch and laughter and tears that Jesus has healed and restored.

With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you – that’s my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage...

The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first...

Frankl asserts that “the potentialities of life are not indifferent possibilities, but must be seen in the light of meaning and values.” Such meaning and values cannot be imposed; each individual must seek out for...

Forgiveness is a powerful cure.

my dear,we are all made of water. it’s okay to rage. sometimes it’s okay to rest. to recede.

I know already that I can survive it. That’s the sorrow of it all. That whatever comes I’ll survive it. I mean, even if the worst were to be true, would it really be the...

It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never...

The activity of loving kindness is the bridge that allows you to slowly, slowly realise the wisdom and perfection of this moment.

Unhappiness comes from living the life of two people–the one people want you to be and the one you want to be.

Where humanitysowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.

An accident you’re in? It marks you on the outside, maybe. Scars your face or your skin-breaks bones,crushes skulls,leaves the body changed.An accident witnessed? You’re different on the inside. Maybe there’s no cut someone else...

I want to share my story, and I want to know yours. I believe with all my heart that sharing our stories, the real, ugly, broken ones, is one of the most powerful things in...

Punishments include such things as flashbacks, flooding of unbearable emotions, painful body memories, flooding of memories in which the survivor perpetrated against others, self-harm, and suicide attempts.