Working with people is basically not a question of formal education; working with people is a question of energy and awareness. Everyone can basically work with people. It is a question of developing a presence...

Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ’s having healed his mother-in-law.

Maybe you’ve gotten through something and when you did you thought, I am leaving that behind and will never return. And that’s a great way of thinking…for selfish jerks.If we actually care about people other...

What if there were health food stores on every corner in the hood, instead of liquor stores!?

What issues sidetrack you from your mission to get well?

When you slip up and let yourself back into old, toxic patterns of thinking, forgive yourself before you try to fix yourself.

If all you do is set goals and achieve them then you have learned to be a doer. Happiness isn’t at the end of the next goal. It is the journey of aligning your choices...

Beat you to the top of the mountain”, followed by the funnest sprint of both of your lives.

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.

Love is the most powerful healing energy. Everything you do with love spreads healing. So feel it,be it, and spread it.

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...

The simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love is the invincible fire of transformation for healing the world.

It’s healing, everything is on track. Our plan is just to leave it alone.

I choose to write because it’s perfect for me. It’s an escape, a place I can go to hide. It’s a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It’s a journal, when the...

Healing is the hardest thing you’ll ever do.’ ~Quinn

Paulette had never been flush with self-confidence. People took that as humility, but humility isn’t painful and crippling. She hadn’t yet learned that humble and self-destructive aren’t the same thing at all. They’re not even...

Sometimes, the most healing thing we can do for another human being, is to listen to them, just … LISTEN.

I know I’m not to blame for what he did. And I know, too, that I am strong inside–stronger than I ever realized.

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

Amen, I say to you, that the publicans and the harlots shall go into the Kingdom of God before you” (Matt. 21:31). Those who think they are healthy but have a hidden moral cancer are...

She had not had the relief of amnesia. She had suffered longer, and she had suffered more. Each second was agony in the first weeks. She was like an amputee in the days before anesthesia,...

You are free to choose your own way of life, but you are not free to choose the results.

Come, come into this circle of grace and friendship.Come bringing only your open heart.You owe us nothing but truth, you need no heavy armor here.Show us your beautiful scars, the evidence of adventures you’ve survived.Tell...

Free yourself from any emotional trauma. Dwell on positive thoughts, the strength for your soul.

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.

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...

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...

Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when...

Underlying the attack on psychotherapy, I believe, is a recognition of the potential power of any relationship of witnessing. The consulting room is a privileged space dedicated to memory. Within that space, survivors gain the...

I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me irreversibly and just so forever...

I wish on one of the stars for divine orchestration and save the rest of them for all of the other girls in the world who will feel like I do tonight.

feeling means your dealing means your healing

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...

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...

Awakening is not a journey of discovering a distant land or a coveted secret, but rather, it is a journey of surrendering to what has always been present but shrouded in illusion and disillusion.

Silence is the source of healing. When we bring things from within ourselves out into the light of awareness, a healing process happens. In the silence, we can let go of all anger, sadness, fear,...

only the survivor” can truly define justice. – Kirkus Review

Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.

there is some achingthat will only heal…in the mosque of sleep.

No matter how much you cry, the tears will dry. No matter how many nightmares, flashbacks, visions, or terrors you endure, they will pass. To weather these in order to find your true self and...

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.

The practice is simple. Whatever you’re doing, do that with total awareness.

We could all spend a lifetime unraveling the knots of our childhood, but at some point you realize the knots are no longer yours. They belong to your parents, and their parents before them. The...

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

Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.

I am still not good enough. I am still not whole enough. I am still not pure enough. I am still weakness and sharp edges and broken, but He is good and pure and whole,...

How everyone is struggling for something. Trying to keep the balance. Struggling to find their way back. Doing the best they can with what they’ve been dealt. Staying in place, doing anything to keep from...

Making time to experience joy is the single most important thing you can do to heal your heart.

I have been hurt so bad but I still love so hard, I admire my heart for that.

…each of the painful “problems” in our lives contains valuable healing lessons. They teach us awareness and hopefully convince us to let go of our blind spots, prejudices, and tendencies to ignore our intuition and...