Visiting new places andmeeting interesting people – even if “What remained after paying the rent for the Tel Aviv flat, which I shared with a roommate, and the tuition at university was close to nothing...

The ultimate relationship is within thyself, knowing that all other relationships are a projection or a reflection of our ability or inability to love.

Always look heavenward in any situation.Trust God to grant you the needed grace and strength to overcome the situation.

I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. I had been damaged, and...

Love sustains us in our challenges, in our search for truth, in our quest for happiness.

And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.

Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you’re not hurting the person you hate. You’re hurting yourself. And that’s a healing. Actually, it’s a real healing, forgiveness.

Love opens your heart, trumps fear, and paves the way for healing in all aspects of your life.

Tonight I attend my thirty-fifth high school reunion with some trepidation.I have not seen most of these former classmates for thirty-some years. I am not the same young girl they knew in high school. What...

If ever I was running, it was towards you.

In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to:break the will and personality of the person until they become as nothing… with no will of their...

The glory of God is as destructive of evil as it is creative of good.

We are not the only ones affected by our recovery. The spiritual awakening heals the world one person at a time.

Many people ask how to heal an aching heart. I ask in return how does one release the attachment to the aching?

Selfish love hurts, selfless love heals.

When our heart is closed, it can create a lonely and isolated feeling together with the attitude: “Nobody loves me” or “Nobody cares about me”, which can make it hard for other people to love...

Everybody’s got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you’ve got to open up the closet and the let the skeletons breathe. Half the time, the very thing you think is gonna destroy...

Depression thrives in secrecy but shrinks in empathy.

Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)

Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing.

Traumatic events, by definition, overwhelm our ability to cope. When the mind becomes flooded with emotion, a circuit breaker is thrown that allows us to survive the experience fairly intact, that is, without becoming psychotic...

When we understand that Peace is a state of mind we understand true Peace.

Then perhaps you need another dose,” she whispered, her face upturned as she leaned closer to him.

Because it takes more courage to heal the world’s hurts than to inflict them.

The doctor of the future will be oneself.

Someone’s forgiveness will not heal you; condemnation or absolution is their test, not yours.

May you allow fear to soften and melt away. May you release all regrets and resentments.

I only share when I have no unmet needs that I’m trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a larger audience is only a good idea if the healing is tied to...

…for I am the Lord, who heals you.” (from Under His Wings: Healing Truth for Adoptees of All Ages)

The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not...

When i move through my pain, it clears the path for a new dawn, a new day. It is in these moments, i feel the sun rising on the horizon of hope, in my soul.

The government researchers,aware of the information in the professional journals, decided to reverse the process (of healing from hysteric dissociation). They decided to use selective trauma on healthy children to create personalities capable of committing...

And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again – so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that...

This is what I’m supposed to be doing this summer. This is how I’m supposed to be passing my days. Figuring out the secret to how she was the most joyful person when she was...

How can I pretend that nothing happened?

prove” I wasn’t a victim anymore, I moved closer to painful experiences rather than away from them. Remaining in harm’s way and exposing myself to more pain kept me in the victim role rather than...

When wounds are healed by love,The scars are beautiful.

Love is the only thing that can touch our soul and change our heart.

May you find comfort by reading and mediation on God’s word.

I was tired of well-meaning folks, telling me it was time I got over being heartbroke. When somebody tells you that, a little bell ought to ding in your mind. Some people don’t know grief...

Love will be our medicine.

Our task shouldn’t be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

We have all been hurt at some point in our lives, from a spouse, a friend, an employer, a co-worker,a pastor and sometimes the wounds are so deep we wonder if they will ever heal.

He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.

It occurs to me that if I don’t sort myself out soon I will die of meaninglessness. That is the price of avoiding the things I find troubling.

In order to heal, you have to first be broken.

I show my scars so that others know they can heal.

Asshole Proximity Disorder

You’re not broken beyond repair there is hope. There is a God who knows all the pain you endure and will heal, protect and rejuvenate you.