Michelle Bachelet Quotes

It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds.

My family and I have such a different dynamic now. We've talked through a lot of our abuse.

The brain heals the past like an injury.

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

Physicians need to be good technicians and know how to prescribe, but for healing to occur they also need to incorporate philosophy and spirituality into their treatment. We need to feel as well as think.

My relationships with both my mother and father are good. We spent several difficult years hashing over the problems and the past, and worked out a fairly solid middle ground. I wouldn't say my relationship with either of them - they're no longer together - is exactly typical, but that would be difficult after all we went through.

I find forgiveness to be really healthy.

Trauma creates one of four types of people: victims, rescuers, or perps - and if you're really lucky and really strong and very willing and brave, survivors.

Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.

I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.

Painful events leave scars, true, but it turns out they're largely erasable. Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist who had a stroke that obliterated her memory, described the event as losing '37 years of emotional baggage.'

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

I know so many people who have gone through just not very good situations, and sometimes you just need a song to help pick you up out of it, especially if you're going through the hurting part.

It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

As the weeks went on, I realized there was an important role comedy would play in healing the tragedies of September 11. Comedy can help people cope, and many people were coming to the clubs to laugh out the stress.

I know people heal by being able to tell the story - the whole story.

Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.

Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process.

It will take 150 years or seven generations to heal the wound of the residential school.