Healing Is the New High Quotes

“You can’t change your past, but you can choose to make your future a lighter place. Here’s the thing – it’s your responsibility to heal yourself.”
― Vex King, Healing Is the New High: A Guide to Overcoming Emotional Turmoil and Finding Freedom

“Reparenting is usually taught to parents because it’s a way to care for yourself as an adult at the same time as caring for your children, and to address your childhood trauma so you don’t pass it on to your kids.”
― Vex King, Healing Is the New High: A Guide to Overcoming Emotional Turmoil and Finding Freedom

“Those who attempt to belittle us reveal more about their own character and perception of the world than ours. Those who want to hurt the world outside of them must contain hurt in their inner world. You can only give what you have – literally and energetically.”
― Vex King, Healing Is the New High: A Guide to Overcoming Emotional Turmoil and Finding Freedom

“I found that I could choose who I was, and most importantly, that who I was didn’t have to be changed by what other people thought of me.”
― Vex King, Healing Is the New High: A Guide to Overcoming Emotional Turmoil and Finding Freedom

“Trauma feeds the fearful, wounded aspect of the ego and drives us to make decisions based on that pain. In contrast, when intuition guides our decisions and communication, we act from a place of love and steadiness.”
― Vex King, Healing Is the New High: A Guide to Overcoming Emotional Turmoil and Finding Freedom

“This is a beautiful life. I’m glad to be a wave for these few moments. I won’t break or die when I hit the shore because I’ll simply go back to the ocean. I came from the ocean and I’ll return to it. It is what I am, and I am what it is. This is how I’m meant to be.”
― Vex King, Healing Is the New High: A Guide to Overcoming Emotional Turmoil and Finding Freedom

“I began to accept that I didn’t have to be so affected by other people’s actions. I found that I could choose who I was, and most importantly, that who I was didn’t have to be changed by what other people thought of me.”
― Vex King, Healing Is the New High: A Guide to Overcoming Emotional Turmoil and Finding Freedom

“when people ask me what I do, I’m comfortable saying, ‘I just try to help people,”
― Vex King, Healing Is the New High: A Guide to Overcoming Emotional Turmoil and Finding Freedom

“When it comes to healing, awareness is key. You’ve got to be willing to notice what’s going on with you,”
― Vex King, Healing Is the New High: A Guide to Overcoming Emotional Turmoil and Finding Freedom

“She’d worked on the physical first, and the emotional healing followed.”
― Vex King, Healing Is the New High: A Guide to Overcoming Emotional Turmoil and Finding Freedom

“Trauma makes us thin-skinned, overly sensitive, hypervigilant, and prone to pain. And it’s often all-encompassing, too, so our attention is focused on the pain and on desperately trying to avoid more of it.”
― Vex King, Healing Is the New High: A Guide to Overcoming Emotional Turmoil and Finding Freedom