Beginning Quote by Amanda Ripley

Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.

— N.D. Wilson

“Recovery itself is a very un-glamorous daily process of being willing to fall down again, to break again, to cry again, to get up…

— Shannon Cutts

You can reclaim your own narrative.

— Paula Broadwell

One of the big ways in which I felt my own writing life shaped by recovery had to do with my relationship to other…

— Leslie Jamison

Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You…

— Jessica Stern

I truly believe that recovery requires some kind of stasis where you have to sit and internalize and lick your wounds and confront that…

— Justin Rutledge

“A shattered narrative is still a narrative. We can't escape it, it is what we are.”

— Jill Talbot

'Recovery' is an idea whose time has come. At its heart is a set of values about a person's right to build a meaningful…

— Geoff Shepherd

“Recovery means ... getting to look everyone in the eye who battled to believe in you ... and say, 'I won.”

— Brittany Burgunder

“Recovery is the urge, the wrestle, and the resurrection.”

— Patricia E. Deegan

“We can't meaningfully proceed with healing, with restoration, without "re-story-ation".”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

“Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions — which become your life.”

— Bryant McGill