#recovery

Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#hope #inspirational #recovery #family

I am evolving from being an animal,' he said. 'But it is going very, very slowly. Sometime I try to cry and laugh like other people, just to see if it feels like anything. Yet tears don't come. Laughter doesn't come. ↗

— Blaine Harden

#recovery #freedom

The winds of tribulation blow out some men's candles of commitment.(Maxwell) Our job in recovery is to protect our candle from those winds. ↗

— Roger Stark

#recovery #inspirational

Only love can neutralize shame. ↗

— Omar Manejwala

#love #recovery #self-help #shame #inspirational

Saying things like "you must hit rock bottom before you can rise up" is just an excuse for not doing the effort of rising up earlier. When you hit rock bottom you must rise up - because you have no other option. ↗

— Fergus MacDermott

#inspirational #inspirational

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through. ↗

— Jenni Schaefer

#recovery #life

One of the most dangerous myths surrounding eating disorders is that they are a life sentence. ↗

— Lynn Crilly

#myths #recovery #life

Lumani had never managed a failed delivery because, in the end, no matter how skilled or how hard they fought back, pressure applied in the right places caused even the strongest men to fracture. But this one? He'd watched her. Studied her. Observed what maybe even Uncle, the reader of people, had missed. This one was already fractured, and the lines between her broken pieces were not fissures but scar material stronger than whatever had once filled those spaces. ↗

— Taylor Stevens

#damaged #fight-back #fissure #fracture #healing

Once it arrives, erotic sex cannot be chased or grasped at, for it shows itself when you’re not looking. ↗

— Alexandra Katehakis

#recovery

Guilt is a destructive and ultimately pointless emotion ↗

— Lynn Crilly

#guilt #recovery #guilt