“Life has taught me that the people who often love the hardest are the ones who have been hurt the most.”— Bianca Sparacino, shopcatalog.com
“The greatest magic you have is the courage you go digging for, when your world falls apart, the light you still hold, when everything has grown dark.”— Nikita Gill, collective.world
“Growth is simply learning how to suffer, gracefully, elegantly, constantly moving and traveling without letting your pain tear you apart.”— Nikita Gill, collective.world
“Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.”— Ronald Reagan, slate.com
“Healing is not fixing. It is just the process of remembering that everything was always okay.”— Brianna Wiest, shopcatalog.com
“You have dug your soul out of the dark, you have fought to be here; do not go back to what buried you.”— Bianca Sparacino, shopcatalog.com
“I am no longer afraid of the mess this healing will create. I am here to unravel. I am here to unpack these bones.”— Bianca Sparacino, shopcatalog.com
“If you trust yourself enough to know you can feel bad and recover, you will do just that.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“Lila: The first step to recovery is accepting who you are. Dexter: I thought the first step was admitting you have a problem.”— Scott Buck, Dexter Morgan, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com
“Momma, I'm so sorry, I'm not sober anymore. And daddy, please forgive me for the drinks spilled on the floor. To the ones who never left me, we've been down this road before I'm so sorry, I'm not sober anymore.”— Demi Lovato, open.spotify.com
“Sometimes I just wanna cave and I don't wanna fight I try and I try and I try and I try and I try.”— Demi Lovato, open.spotify.com
“I try to pull myself together and pick up the scattered jigsaw puzzle pieces of me lying all around. This is a first, I think.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Maybe you were the hero you were waiting for, maybe you were the love of your life all along, maybe you were always happy and just thought you needed the reassurance of someone safe to let yourself feel it.”— Brianna Wiest, shopcatalog.com
“The length of your recovery is determined by the extent of your injuries. And it’s not always successful. No matter how hard we work at it, some wounds might never fully heal. You might have to adjust to a whole new way of living. Things may have changed too radically to ever go back to what they we…”— William Harper, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com
“Blooming from the wounds which we once bled. This is your alchemy. This is your truth.”— Sjana Elise Earp, instagram.com
“I just have to face the guy that I became when I was fueled on drugs and alcohol. It's incomprehensible to me, in a way, that I got so far out. And there was no one to challenge me. Because I may have become quite intimidating. People said they couldn't challenge me because I came back twice as stro…”— Eric Clapton, rollingstone.com
“I am pretty close to putting it together. It's like riding a bike. But it's a new bike.”— Tiger Woods, usatoday.com
“This ruptured syllogism — If I understand myself, I’ll get better — made me question the way I’d come to worship self-awareness itself, a brand of secular humanism: Know thyself, and act accordingly. What if you reversed this? Act, and know thyself differently. Showing up for a meeting, for a ritual…”— Leslie Jamison, time.com
“Years later, recovery turned this notion upside-down — it made me start to believe that I could do things until I believed in them, that intentionality was just as authentic as unwilled desire. Action could coax belief rather than testifying to it. 'I used to think you had to believe to pray,' David…”— Leslie Jamison, time.com