#healing

Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#healing #health #knowledge #meditation #change

it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds." - Barack Obama, 44th U.S. President ↗

— Barack Obama

#friendship #healing #communication

A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#forgiveness #forgiveness-chance-love-equality #forgiving #forgiving-others #forgiving-yourself

This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, 'aw shit, he's up! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#dancing #devil #forgiving #healing #helping

Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing. ↗

— Jennifer Brown

#life-lessons #pain #traumatic-experiences #experience

And oh she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you had put the pieces together, even though you might look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#experience

…is methodical abuse, often using indoctrination, aimed at breaking the will of another human being. In a 1989 report, the Ritual Abuse Task Force of the L.A. County Commission for Women defined ritual abuse as: “Ritual Abuse usually involves repeated abuse over an extended period of time. The physical abuse is severe, sometimes including torture and killing. The sexual abuse is usually painful,humiliating, intended as a means of gaining dominance over the victim.The psychological abuse is devastating and involves the use of ritual indoctrination. It includes mind control techniques which convey to the victim a profound terror of the cult members …most victims are in a state of terror, mind control and dissociation” (Pg. 35-36) ↗

— Chrystine Oksana

#abuse-of-power #cult #dissociation #fear #healing

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye. ↗

— China Miéville

#healing #loss #death

We must be so heavenly minded that we are compelled to be of earthly good! ↗

— Marilynn Dawson

#christian-living #divorce #faith #faith-journey #faith-walk

We are not to be occupied with our feelings or symptoms, or our faith or lack of faith, but only with what God has said ↗

— Gordon Lindsay

#faith #god #healing #jesus #revivalist