Recovery Quotes Quotes

“When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to celebrate. Instead, the feeling of victory is replaced with anxiety that it will happen again, and with shame and vulnerability when you see how your illness affected your family, your work, everything left untouched while you struggled to survive. We come back to life thinner, paler, weaker … but as survivors. Survivors who don’t get pats on the back from coworkers who congratulate them on making it. Survivors who wake to more work than before because their friends and family are exhausted from helping them fight a battle they may not even understand. I hope to one day see a sea of people all wearing silver ribbons as a sign that they understand the secret battle, and as a celebration of the victories made each day as we individually pull ourselves up out of our foxholes to see our scars heal, and to remember what the sun looks like.”
― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

“Recovery is full of ups and downs.
There is no such thing as a linear life.
But you can always turn your setbacks into setups to come back stronger.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Some people suffer in silence, pain in the hearts but smiles on their faces.”
― Isha Barlas

“Recovery is hard. Regret is harder.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“The Root

Dear one,
It is totally conceivable to accept something
Yet still feel unable to ever recover from it
For acceptance, my love, is simply the flower,
Like a ray of hope through the hazy rain,
But the root that it sprouted from,
And the stem it grows upon, still remain”
― Christine Evangelou, Pieces: A Poetry Anthology

“As many ways there are to “mess-up” in addiction; there are Just as many ways to clean-up during recovery.”
― D.C. Hyden, The Sober Addict

“Sometimes we need to be drawn to a place so dark that we have no choice but to trust our hearts to illuminate the way.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“You do not have to keep the thought of him from your heart, but do not let the love in you harden because of him. He was not worthy.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Silver in the Bone

“i am here now. i made it. into the light. i hope i can re-member myself back to the practice of healing. i wanna dance with nature, channel voices, nurture plant medicine and explore the dormant generational gift my great-grandma had with herbal medicine and divine conjuring.”
― Malebo Sephodi

“Sometimes it’s in the letting go that we find ourselves and the path we were meant to be on all along.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Forests thrive the most after they’ve been burned down to nothing. Maybe a crisis is growth and healing in disguise.”
― Brittany Burgunder, Safety in Numbers: From 56 to 221 Pounds, My Battle with Eating Disorders

“Constant Reminder - Constant Deterrent”
― D.C. Hyden, The Sober Addict

“The devil wants me dead but he will settle for drunk.”
― Patrick Harrington, Recreating Patrick: An Inside Job

“This process of healing is a marathon, not a sprint…The goal is to keep showing up for yourself.”
― Tabitha Yates, Jesus and Therapy: Bridging the Gap Between Faith and Mental Health

“Recovery is not about erasing the past, but about rewriting your future with strength, hope, and a new beginning.”
― Joseph Meyering Sr AAS, SUDP

“But you said...
Oh I said a great many things.
All sorts of odd ideas crept into my brain.
Excess of grief may bring on quite as fine a bout of madness as an excess of anything else.
I was not quite myself for a time.
Truth to tell, I was a little wild.
But as you see that is all past now.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“When something comes to an end, it means there’s room for something else to begin.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“If you're not living and learning, you are dying and regretting.”
― Joseph Meyering Sr

“The 3Ds of Going Cold Turkey are: Detox, Detach and Declare”
― D.C. Hyden, The Sober Addict

“I SHOULD BE UPSET THAT A BURGLAR STOLE ALL
MY LAMPS, BUT I’M DELIGHTED!”
― Lynn Byk, The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch

“One day your day one will be the day you look back on as the one that mattered most.”
― Broms The Poet, FEAST: The Second Serving: Revised, Revitalized, and Re-Realized

“It will feel impossible until it is done, after that it will feel essential.”
― Broms The Poet, FEAST: The Second Serving: Revised, Revitalized, and Re-Realized

“Addiction is like a renegade chemist turning your brain into a circus”
― Michael G., Navigating Recovery: 12-Steps Simplified: A No Bullshit Guide to 12-Step Success and Thriving in Recovery

“After being apart from you, I lost myself, but believe me, I found a version of myself that no one could have imagined.”
― Wajid Shaikh, Sukoon

“Your hair has gotta be on fire before you go like, 'Yeah, I’ll go hang with a bunch of dudes and talk about emotions'.”
― Dax Shepard

“Sometimes wrong doors are just as valuable as right doors.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“I invested my entire savings into a cryptocurrency project that promised huge rewards. The marketing was flashy, the community seemed active, and the developers appeared to be legitimate. I truly believed this could be the opportunity that would change my life. Unfortunately, it all came crashing down when the developers rug-pulled, vanishing overnight and taking everyone’s money with them. I was left with nothing but shock and heartbreak. Seve thousand dollars was everything I had. I had worked for years to save it, and losing it all in a matter of hours left me devastated. The worst part was the overwhelming feeling of hopelessness. I found myself lying awake at night, replaying every decision, wondering how I could have been so naïve. At one point, the emotional weight became so heavy that I even had thoughts of ending my life. In the middle of this dark time a Discord moderator from another group reached out and recommended I contact Digital Light solution Web—site h tt p s: / /digitallight solution.com‬, I will never forget that moment because it felt like someone had thrown me a lifeline when I was drowning. From the first interaction, they treated my case with urgency and genuine care, showing empathy for what I was going through. The team quickly got to work. They tracked the scammer’s wallet address, analyzed transaction histories, and coordinated with marketplace administrators. To my surprise, they managed to pressure the platform into reversing several transactions. In the end, they recovered six thousand three hundred dollars for me, almost all of what I lost. Holding that recovered money in my account again felt surreal. It gave me the chance to start over and begin rebuilding my life. What impressed me most was not just their skill, but their humanity. The Digital Light solution team was professional, responsive, and transparent. They explained every step of the process in plain language, making sure I understood exactly what was happening. During such a stressful and uncertain time, that clarity meant more than I can express. Before, I was always careful with money and dreamed of achieving financial freedom. I thought cryptocurrency could be my stepping stone, but the rug-pull destroyed my trust. Thanks to Digital Light solution, Contact Info Service Email:digitaltech solutiion @ fst service.com And Telegram ——digitallightsolution”
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“I once heard a program nazi defined as someone who goes around giving advice to people who are happier than he is.”
― Barry B. Longyear, Yesterday's Tomorrow: Raw Stories of Hard-Fought Recovery

“If you fall Don't give up stand up and run”
― Muhammed Basid Kalathil

“There were times she thought she’d made so many leaps and bounds she might as well be a different person; and then there were times, like now, that knocked her so far back into the past she might as well have never left.”
― Dianna Hardy, Fathoms Deep: A Blood Shadow Novel