Recovery quotations

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◆ A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

- Paul Klee99

◆ All humans at some time experience injustice, assault, disqualification, invasion and betrayal. No person is completely shielded. We need not trace our family trees very far back or study for long what life was like for our forbears to uncover humanity's abusiveness. The inherited scars of our multigenerational families exist in our family systems as we know them today. The abuse of the past often exists as the shame of today, and the shame is perpetuated through our patterns of interaction.

- Merle A. Fossum98

◆ It's crazy, how similar we are. Here's both of us, working through our stuff, trying to make something positive out of something really bad.

- Jenny Han98

◆ But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors.

- George S. McGovern98

◆ Clinicians have told me that our emotional is arrested at the age that an eating disorder takes control of our lives. After we recover, we pick up emotionally where we left off at that age.

- Jenni Schaefer98

◆ We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

- Martin Buber98

◆ I am evolving from being an animal,' he said. 'But it is going very, very slowly. Sometime I try to cry and laugh like other people, just to see if it feels like anything. Yet tears don't come. Laughter doesn't come.

- Blaine Harden98

◆ Anorexia cannot be cured by treating the physical symptoms alone; it is the mind which must be treated.

- Lynn Crilly98

◆ I'm here to tell you that if you get broken, it's possible to put yourself back together. I'm here to tell you that if you get lost, it's possible that a light will come, dancing, on the horizon, to lead you home.

- Nick Lake98

◆ Given love and opportunity, every child and adult can recover. All who know this and have the capacity to help others should assist as they can.

- Dallin H. Oaks98

◆ Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework...

- Asa Don Brown98

◆ Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific...

- Asa Don Brown98

◆ Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.

- Tirumalai S. Srivatsan98

◆ The good news, however, is that, also contrary to popular belief, full and lasting recovery from an eating disorder is possible.

- Lynn Crilly98

◆ In truth, Serenus, I have for a long time been silently asking myself to what I should liken such a condition of mind, and I can find nothing that so closely approaches it as the state of those who, after being released from a long and serious illness, are sometimes touched with fits of fever and slight disorders, and, freed from the last traces of them, are nevertheless disquieted with mistrust, and, though now quite well, stretch out their wrist to a physician and complain unjustly of any trace of heat in their body. It is not, Serenus, that these are not quite well in body, but that they are not quite used to being well; just as even a tranquil sea will show some ripple, particularly when it has just subsided after a storm. What you need, therefore, is not any of those harsher measures which we have already left behind, the necessity of opposing yourself at this point, of being angry with yourself at that, of sternly urging yourself on at another, but that which comes last -confidence in yourself and the belief that you are on the right path, and have not been led astray by the many cross- tracks of those who are roaming in every direction, some of whom are wandering very near the path itself. But what you desire is something great and supreme and very near to being a god - to be unshaken.

- Seneca98