“All minds, except such as are delivered from doubt by dulness of sensibility, must be subject to this recurring conflict where the many-twisted conditions of life have forbidden the fulfilment of a bond. For in strictness there is no replacing of relations: the presence of the new does not nullify the failure and breach of the old. Life has lost its perfection: it has been maimed; and until the wounds are quite scarred, conscience continually casts backward, doubting glances.”
Source: Romola
“His gaze never flickered down to it, their eyes locked on each other as he touched the skin with his index finger.
A soft, barely-there touch.
It seared her, from the point of his finger to her flesh, burning and not in a way that was painful. No. It was decadent, like the warmest of fires that seeped into her cold soul, kindling her chilled bones, warming her from the inside out.”
Source: The Emperor
“Sometimes I want to talk to someone,
to heal myself,
to feel inspired,
to feel confident..!”
“At the core of recovery is self-awareness. ... Yet avoiding feeling [these] sensations in our bodies increases our vulnerability to being overwhelmed by them (210)”
Source: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“When we pay focused attention to our bodily sensations, we can recognize the ebb and flow of our emotions and, with that, increase our control over them. (210)”
Source: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“I accepted the imperfections and broken parts of myself and in the process learned to accept the beauty in my brokenness.
Those who saw themselves reflected in the scattered pieces of my exposed life felt drawn, in spite of themselves, to play a part in my healing. Every friend I made in those years helped and healed me in myriad ways.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“Wherever I am, whatever else I'm doing, you're in my thoughts. Always. Whatever seeds you plant will have my eye on them. Whatever plants you make I'll cheer for you. Whatever kind of person you become, no matter how different from my daydreams, I will treasure you. No matter how lonely you ever have felt, I've been there, and no matter how dark things get as you grow older, I'll be there as well. You are my favourite person in the world and the thing I am proudest of.
Love you forever,
Mom”
Source: Birthday
“The suggested benefits of spirituality at the time of coping also include providing a source of comfort and means of healing from the traumatic experience; offering hope and optimism; giving meaning and purpose to the event; providing a framework for coming to grips with limits of personal knowledge, control, and resources; offering an external framework of control; and providing a way to 'transcend' the experience.”
Source: Psychology from the Islamic Perspective
“It burned so much. I thought I might be bleeding. No, wait . . . I was bleeding.”
Source: The Naked Truth of a Healer: The Path to My Authentic Self
“I felt that I was doing something wrong, and I needed to stop . . . but how could something feel so wrong and so right at the same time?”
Source: The Naked Truth of a Healer: The Path to My Authentic Self