Portia de Rossi Quotes

Just having that time alone, away from the team, just going through the progression of being healthy again with the brain work that I was doing in the hospital and building that company, all I could do is think and it just dawned on me that, hey, it's time for the next chapter of my life. I need to walk away and try something else.

Recovery stabilized me; songwriting gave me a purpose.

There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.

There was a time when I stopped singing, between 16 and 19, but that was done on purpose, maybe as a punishment, maybe as a cure.

I wrote 'Road Less Traveled' to make myself feel better and process what I was going through.

Sometimes you have to let your life fall apart and let it come back together on its own and learn to care for yourself in a different way.

I hollowed out, stopped listening to music, never picked up a pencil, started slipping into old habits. All of the vibrancy I used to see became de-saturated. Lost Slowly, once I had done enough damage to myself, I began to climb out of the hole. Clean. When I made it out, the only thing left inside was the voice, and for the second time in my life, I no longer ignored it - because it was my own.

The time it takes to feel better about a breakup is directly proportional to the time it takes to feel better about yourself.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

Part of my therapy is to write.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more.

This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.

I'm a big believer in bibliotherapy. Books have the power to change lives: what we think and what we do.

I felt I came back rather quickly from being ill and didn't give myself the time to reflect.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and exploration, just to survive. Otherwise I feel like I'm falling asleep, like I'll go crazy if I don't do it.

Awareness is the first step in healing.

I stumbled onto the best profession to heal my childhood: the only one that lets you release and express whatever is ugly and messy and beautiful about your life. We're in the business of creating human beings. The more we spew, and the more honestly we do it, the better. Try that on Wall Street.