Healing Journey Quotes

“Acceptance can be so freeing. Before you know it, you’ll move toward forgiveness, which leads to wholeness.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

“The contemplative clinking and methodical chewing are a little weird, but it is proof that souls are housed
inside the physical body.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

“It hardly felt real that she was gone, though the heavy pain Agata had carried for weeks reminded her, sitting like too many sweets in her stomach; that and the black fabric, the black everywhere.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

“Forgiveness is an act of self-love, and you don’t even need to tell the people who have hurt you that you forgave them.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

“It is time to tell your story without feeling ashamed. This is how you heal.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

“Your creator—whatever you call it in your own world—is not going to be upset with you for protecting your peace.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

“Your physical and emotional health are in danger.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

“People in our lives are supposed to add to our emotional stability, not drain it.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

“Learning who we truly are on the inside gives us the confidence of being ourselves regardless of the place or person.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

“These days I feel empowered by the same disturbing stories that once broke my spirit.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

“Once you experience how rewarding it is to be your true self, flaws and all, without the need to feel guilty or inadequate, you will begin to wonder, ‘Where have I been my whole entire life?”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

“Think of your pain as nothing else but a requirement to become the best version of yourself.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

“Trudy felt as if she had finally come home for the first time in her life.”
― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle

“Then again, he supposed the healing process, in contrast to trauma, was gentle and slow... The soft closing of a door, rather than a slam.- John”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Reborn

“There is a moment in our healing journey when our denial crumbles; we realize our experience and it's continued effects on us won't "just go away". That's our breakthrough moment. It's the sun coming out to warm the seeds of hope so they can grow our personal garden of empowerment.”
― Jeanne McElvaney, Healing Insights: Effects of Abuse for Adults Abused as Children

“Talk about receiving blessings even through hardship! I once heard a quote that broken crayons still color.”
― Octavia Yvonne Webb, Mixed Bloodline: The story of a young biracial boy overcoming racism growing up in the South doing the 1930's Jim Crow Era

“Intensity-seeking is an enslavement of our own perpetuation. When we step out of the delirium of always seeking someone new, and meet the same old sad and lonely child within, our healing journey begins. Exhausting ourselves with novelty is a defense against our deepest pain, one that we cannot outrun. But once we stop and feel our losses, we can begin our healing journey and be the authentic, joyous person we were born to be.”
― Alexandra Katehakis, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

“The damage and invisible scars of emotional abuse are very difficult to heal, because memories are imprinted on our minds and hearts and it takes time to be restored. Imprints of past traumas do not mean a person cannot change their future beliefs and behaviors. as people, we do not easily forget. However, as we heal, grieve, and let go, we become clear-minded and focused to live restore and emotionally healthy.”
― Dee Brown, Breaking Passive-Aggressive Cycles

“The key to inner freedom, bliss, and self-realization is learning to hear and understand the language of the heart. To do this, we must first listen—an inner listening that is attuned to the whisperings of the heart. The heart’s language is simplicity itself. It has nothing to do with yes or no, good or bad, right or wrong. Its basic vocabulary is, most simply, open or closed. Within this, there are many variations and degrees: ecstasy, love, joy, acceptance, indifference, rejection, hardness, fear. If we listen and pay attention to the joy, the love, and the bliss in our hearts and follow this, it will guide us on our true path. But first we must learn to listen, to tune in to what the heart is whispering.”
― Katherine Parker, Resonance Alchemy: Awakening the Tree of Life

“You make me remember what it’s like to want a future instead of fearing it.”
― Tricia Newlan, Never Did I Dream: A Second Chance Off- Limits Romance

“Healing trauma involves tears. The tears release our pain. The tears are part of our recovery. My friend, please let your tears flow.”
― Dana Arcuri, Soul Cry: Releasing & Healing the Wounds of Trauma

“Healing is like an onion. As you process through one layer of trauma to release the pain and heal, a new layer will surface. One layer after another layer will bring up new issues to focus on. Pace yourself. Only focus on one layer at a time.”
― Dana Arcuri, Soul Cry: Releasing & Healing the Wounds of Trauma

“Turns out grief comes with a spine.”
― Tricia Newlan, Beneath the Lies: A Secret Alliance of Revenge & Betrayal Romance

“The earth and trees never argue or interrupt. The hours pass in silence, and somewhere along the way, your thoughts sort themselves out without you even noticing.”
― Tricia Newlan, Beneath the Lies: A Secret Alliance of Revenge & Betrayal Romance

“Writing her story became a deeply personal journey of discovering generational secrets, embroiled in shame and humiliation—secrets and shame that would come back to haunt her and her siblings, as the doors tilted open.”
― Christine Elizabeth, Behind Closed Doors: A tale of hurt, healing and choice.

“The path of healing leads toward wholeness, and along the way, we come to understand that through the wisdom of spirit, we chose this mother, this life, and these lessons. We chose them not as punishment, but as the ground from which
our evolution could grow.”
― Deva Arani, The Mother Ache: Healing the Wounded Daughter Within

“The Orphan archetype reminds you that you are not the child who was left behind. You are the woman who refuses to abandon herself.”
― Deva Arani, The Mother Ache: Healing the Wounded Daughter Within

“I could not speak my truth out loud, so I wrote it down; and somewhere between the broken pieces, I found my voice”
― Clara Rose

“Nature is a patient guide. She teaches without words, through the language of wind and rain, growth and decay. It is often in nature that we remember our own innocence and the way awareness once flowed effortlessly through us before we learned to try to manage our lives. In the stillness of the forest, the rush of a river, or the hum of insects at dusk, we remember that we are part of something vast, cyclical, and whole.”
― Deva Arani, The Mother Ache: Healing the Wounded Daughter Within

“Your power was never missing. It was only waiting for you to stop handing it away.”
― Rania Naim, Never Abandon Yourself Again : 77 Chapters On Reclaiming Your Power