healing-the-past

Work hard. "Suit yourself, then you'll know at least one person is pleased.

You are strong enough to overcome the situation!

Hope is an act of faith. Great faith, great hope.

Love mercy, love kindness.

God is merciful.God is faithful.

No human being should be maltreated under any circumstances. We are all wonderful creation of God. May we affectionately love one another.

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.From an Irish headstone

Bruised, beaten, shaken, weakened, tossed, thrown, lost, alone, heard, helped, healed, hope... it still works.

On some level, with its carrousels and castle and cowboys, its mysterious jungle and its animated characters, Disneyland is a highly idealized elaboration of our childhoods. It can be seen as a portal through which we revisit (maybe even heal) our youth.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

Some people grow up with issues because they did not have their parents around growing up, many others have issues because their parents were around growing up

That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.

My only regret is that no one told me at the beginning of my journey what I'm telling you now: there will be an end to your pain. And once you've released all those pent-up emotions, you will experience a lightness and buoyancy you haven't felt since you were a very young child. The past will no longer feel like a lode of radioactive ore contaminating the present, and you will be able to respond appropriately to present-day events. You will feel angry when someone infringes on your territory, but you won't overreact. You will feel sad when something bad happens to you, but you won't sink into despair. You will feel joy when you have a good day, and your happiness won't be clouded with guilt. You, too, will have succeeded in making history, history.

Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?

Let go of what cannot be changed and let love in.

What an inspiring book. Thank heaven Lee Thornton decided to share her remarkable life story with us. Lee's book is a blessing as well as a terrific read.

Hope is affirmation of positive thoughts.

Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In the process they plastically retranscribe these procedural memories, so that they become conscious explicit memories, sometimes for the first time, and patients no longer need to "relive" or "reenact" them, especially if they were traumatic.