River of Time Quotes

“Radical acceptance is to know that painful things are still going to happen, but how we respond makes a difference. We don’t have to condone our current reality, but we have to accept it for what it is instead of staying stuck, wishing it were different.”
― Naomi Judd, River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope

“Bruce Lipton (The Biology of Belief),”
― Naomi Judd, River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope

“There can always be healing, even if there is no cure.”
― Naomi Judd, River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope

“But one of the frustrating symptoms of my depression and anxiety is that I had no attention span at all. I would read one paragraph and then realize that I had no idea what I had just read, or I’d accidentally reread the same paragraph, over and over. I was desperate to find articles or research by someone who understood what I was going through.”
― Naomi Judd, River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope

“I wanted to confess that if someone took out a gun and killed me onstage he would be doing me a favor.”
― Naomi Judd, River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope

“The third prescription had even less effect in lifting my depression than the first two and had done nothing but increase my anger and feeling of hopelessness.”
― Naomi Judd, River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope

“After three weeks on Zoloft and Lexapro, I felt like a new person. But not a person anyone would ever want to get to know.”
― Naomi Judd, River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope