Renewed Sense of Self Quotes

For a lot of people, divorce is an incredibly healthy move to make in your life.

As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.

I lived a really wonderful life with this man and even after our divorce, it was incredible.

All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn’t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.

It was a beautiful experience for her, the experience that she had that she confesses. It wasn't dirty and it wasn't horrible and wasn't shattering. It was a wonderful, liberating experience.

I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.

Thanks to God, I was able to come to PSG and be myself again.

Not a day goes past when I don't think how grateful I am I survived, that I recovered and that I feel like a young woman again.

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

I found my feet in my 40s: got divorced at 40, two years of drinking, and then, at 42, I became sober. My 30s were the most boring phase.

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying.

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

In my experience, it's quite an empowering thing to forgive someone because you take control and take ownership of that feeling, of that resentment, and that power that they have taken from you, and in some way, you end up being able to turn it around.

I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology.

I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.