To heal emotional pain, we need to acknowledge it first.

“Addictions are just symptoms of underlying issues, and in my view Nikki self-medicated the emotional pain of his childhood, and being away from his…

— Nikki Sixx

“The thing I feared the most was the network of unexplored crevices in my dark mind . . . because perhaps, there was no such thing as a…

— Laura C. Reden

“For a split second, I realize completely and absolutely that the season of winter is sentient, that there is an intelligence behind it. There's…

— Damien Echols

“Mental illness People assume you aren’t sick unless they see the sickness on your skin like scars forming a map of all the ways…

— Emm Roy

Emotional pain is sometimes what we make of it. We can always choose how we react. No matter what the pain, breathing always centers…

— Aleks Paunovic

“I have found that most people are more willing to accept physical pain and limitation rather than acknowledge and deal with the mental and/or…

— Tobe Hanson

“So what you've actually got is traumatized children. When children are traumatized that affects how they feel about themselves, which is deeply ashamed because…

— Gabor Maté

“Even sorrow has its silver lining, as the emotion that pours forth reminds us of our capacity to love, and to be loved.”

— Rob Kozak

In order to handle my emotional pain I talk to friends about it, I write, I breathe, and most of all, I put it…

— Lisa Loeb

Everyone goes through heartbreak or be disappointed over something at different points in our lives. Use that emotional pain to be a better and…

— Ritu Ghatourey

“We've all felt a little incompetent, insufficient, overexposed, helpless, unlovable, terrified, defective, unfit and unsung at times. And deep down, for whatever reason, you…

— Anne Clendening

“...spiritual or emotional pain doesn't become a memory so much as a bruise ...”

— John Geddes

I don't think there's ever a winner in a feud. It's about emotional pain and an inability to conquer the pain.

— Ryan Murphy

I try to go through it [emotional pain]; understanding is going to take me to a better place. And I do hot yoga.

— Patricia Velasquez

When faced with emotional pain, I become still for hours, sometimes days, doing absolutely nothing. It helps me get to the truest source of…

— Romany Malco