Quotes about Healing

And the gaping hole left behind is in some ways worse than death. If their absence was caused by death, you would grieve their loss. But when their absence is caused by rejection, you not only grieve their loss but you also have to wrestle through the fact that they wanted this.

If things are ever going to get better, we have to acknowledge our underbellies that fuel our unglued reactions.

It's so much healthier to be brave enough to go your separate ways than to keep stuffing and drown in a sea of bitterness.

All I have to do is stand at the gravesite of my sister who died way too young and in way too much pain to be reminded that none of this is easy or tidy. Some things won't be fixed on this side of eternity; they just have to be walked through.

It's easier to construct a more palatable life story-where I can draw straight lines from each hurt of the past to the healing I later experienced-than to face the raw truth.

True peacekeeping is about properly processing the emotions before they get stuffed and rot into something horribly toxic.

If we want recovery and healing we would be wise to take a break or possibly make a clean break from the one wounding us>

If we want recovery and healing we would be wise to take a break or possibly make a clean break from the one wounding us.

This isn't an indication that your healing isn't working. It's just an indication that you're a human still holding on to some hurt that needs to be resolved.

Today's rejections, big or subtle, are like stealth bombs that zing straight to my core, locating hurts from my past and making them agonizingly present all over again.

The tension exists because you are doing the difficult work of no longer cooperating with dysfunction.

I forgive ____ for ____, and whatever my feelings don't yet allow for the blood of Jesus will surely cover.