Quote by Lauren Slater

“Dancing heals distress.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“You don’t heal by pushing harder. You heal by learning to pause, gently and consistently, even while your brain tries to talk you out…

— Ronen Dancziger

“Some things don't pass, the injuries don't heal they merely find a place in our guts and in our bones where they fitfully rest,…

— Toby Barlow

Any dance of celebration must weave both the sorrows and the blessings into a joyful step....To heal is to let the Holy Spirit call…

— Henri Nouwen

“to heal you have to get to the root of the wound and kiss it all the way up”

— Rupi Kaur

“Healing's not always natural, she says. Healing's not always the way a body wants to go. Sometimes the body wants to run. Sometimes it…

— Leah Bobet

“How did she do it, I'd always wondered. Dancing with Q., I understood. Once in a while the pain falls asleep on the job,…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

“It doesn't get better," I said. "The pain. The wounds scab over and you don't always feel like a knife is slashing through you.…

— Katie McGarry

“I can't stall any longer. I think of what my therapist would tell me to do if she was sitting right next to me,…

— Vi Keeland

“More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.”

— Toni Morrison

“The more you practice sitting with the discomfort, the more you gently (and repeatedly) redirect your cast toward something new, the more your nervous…

— Ronen Dancziger

“It will feel better when it stops hurting.”

— Donald H. Broeker