#healing

My dear sister, you can’t escape God, and you can’t escape your skeletons in the closet. They will always be there until you take them out from behind those dusty old moth-eaten coats. Your exterior facade of ‘everything is alright’ only works for a little while, and then the cracks begin to show. You can only hide behind yourself for so long. You can’t keep running! ↗

— Corallie Buchanan

#religion #running-away #religion

Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father. ↗

— Abraham Verghese

#doctor #healing #medicine #medicine

Surgeons can cut out everything except cause. ↗

— Herbert M. Shelton

#healing #health #medicine #surgery #medicine

I can no longer stay quiet in this world, I have a voice and I feel it reverberate off my internal walls, making its slow climb upward until its melody can be heard all around. ↗

— Elin Stebbins Waldal

#healing-the-past #strength #abuse

PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions. ↗

— Susan Pease Banitt

#healing #mental-health #psychology #ptsd #spirituality

If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill. ↗

— Rumi

#depression #healing #pain #recovery #sadness

I don't need help quitting, I have quite a thousand times! I need help STAYING QUIT! ↗

— The White Book

#recovery #recovery

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite ↗