“Our bodies are living ecosystems, and like the cycles of nature, we also ebb and flow, go backward and forward, contract and expand, and move through necessary phases of growth, death, and restoration. Contrary to what we might want to believe, healing is not a linear process but an ongoing spiral into subterranean spaces of darkness where we confront the unknown. Where we rest, regenerate, and eventually expand outward into bloom. We might resist the dark spaces inside us but the truth is, most of our healing and growth happens underground and under our skin. We need dark, protected spaces to let the most tender parts of ourselves form. Rest and retreat are just as necessary as the warmth and illumination of light.”
Source: Awakening Artemis: Deepening Intimacy with the Living Earth and Reclaiming Our Wild Nature
“Maybe time, itself, didn't heal all wounds. Maybe, in the end, it was people who healed those wounds. Nobody wants to hurt.
Maybe, deep down, all we want is to forgive and be forgiven.”
Source: Hopepunk
“Trauma isn’t a single event, but rather an ongoing process. The brain wants to move on quickly, to stomp out any memories associated with the trauma. But the heart wants to understand.”
Source: With Love from London
“We heal our past by living our present love relationship.”
Source: Love's Longing
“When men shake hands with time, time crushes
Them like tumblers; little pieces of glass.”
Source: Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
“Nobody escapes this world without some sort of trauma, but that doesn’t mean you get to do whatever you want because of it.”
Source: A Psalm of Storms and Silence
“If we’re going to heal, let it be so that we can get more in touch with our sensuality otherwise our healing is pointless.”
“The illness that you have isn't the illness of a single body part, something you can think outside of. If you have a bad back you can say 'my back is killing me', and there will be a kind of separation between the pain and the self. The pain is something other. It attacks and annoys and even eats away at the self but it is still not the self. But with depression and anxiety the pain isn't something you think about because it is thought. You are not your back but you are your thoughts.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“The image of perfection I portrayed was nothing more than a figurative house, built for protection from the elements of my inner suffering.”
Source: The Truth in Our Scars: Untangling Trauma to Discover Your Secret Self
“When you turn knowledge inward, you can create the
personal insights needed for growth. Looking within myself for answers was much too scary, so it remained a struggle for a long time. I continued looking to others for answers, hoping to fill the void, until it became much scarier when this outlook nearly took my life.”
Source: The Truth in Our Scars: Untangling Trauma to Discover Your Secret Self