Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.
I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks.
When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was.
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.
If you don't heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future.
These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
I never imagined that divorce would be part of my life history or my family's legacy. When people say that divorce can be more painful than death, I understand why. But like any great trial, God uses everything for good, if we allow Him to heal us.
I'm grounded in joy; I'm not grounded in the trauma anymore.
My parents and I didn't speak for 10 years. It took a long time to rebuild that relationship.
I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
Transplant is a life-changing 'experience. Organ donation transforms lives. It is torture for you, torment for you as an individual in need.
What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.
I want survivors to know that healing is possible.
I wish I could tell every young girl with an eating disorder, or who has harmed herself in any way, that she's worthy of life and that her life has meaning. You can overcome and get through anything.
If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.
You can't fix yourself out of a mental health issue. You can't wake up and say, 'Today I'm not being depressed!' It's a process to get well, but there is recovery.
When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
I was not going to kick back and wait for the unknown. I was going to dive in and become a full-time healing junkie.
It's a successful feeling when someone tells you that you were instrumental in helping them heal from a great wound in their life.
Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.
Healing comes from the healed; not from the physician.
Healing is a choice. It’s not an easy one because it takes work to turn around your habits. But keep making the choice and shifts will happen.
