35 Powerful Phrases When You Need Emotional and Spiritual Repair and Relief
Within the realm of emotional and spiritual support and relief, words possess extraordinary power. Whether spoken or written, they have the remarkable ability to soothe wounded souls, uplift spirits, mend relationships and ignite transformation. Affirmations and phrases for emotional and spiritual repair are impactful for anyone on a journey to find relief.
Carefully crafted to inspire hope and restore inner balance, Parade sought the insights of expert healers—individuals who have dedicated their lives to helping others navigate through pain and find solace—to deliver the most impactful phrases for repair and relief. These seasoned practitioners, with their wealth of experience, offer their perspectives on the best phrases to repeat and why they hold such profound influence.
From ancient wisdom to modern-day expressions and powerful affirmations, these emotional and spiritual phrases carry the power to touch hearts, ignite healing processes and foster resilience in the face of any tough situation. Prepare to be inspired!
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35 Phrases for Emotional and Spiritual Repair
1. "Every day and in every way, I am getting better and better!"
Candace Charee is a manifestation expert, innovative trauma healing and mindset coach, and founder of Effortless Manifesting, LLC, where she specializes in helping people heal trauma and manifest the lives of their dreams. The above phrase by Emile Coue is the most impactful phrase for emotional and spiritual repair, in her opinion.
"This phrase allows someone to effortlessly reprogram their subconscious mind without the usual resistance the conscious mind gives when you say something that it doesn't believe yet," Charee says. "This phrase allows the conscious mind to sail through to the subconscious, implanting new desires and beliefs."
In fact, it's so powerful that Charee has created an entire meditation series around this part of the phrase for her clients. "My latest meditations begin with 'every day and in every way...' and end with something wonderful and beautiful to help a person heal and become their best self." The phrase allows you to step into your power while recognizing that you are always learning and growing.
2. "I hear you, I understand why you feel that way. Let me reassure you..."
Dr. Kathy Nickerson, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and nationally recognized relationship expert who has helped thousands of couples. She has dedicated her career to helping couples strengthen and repair their relationships and is personally invested in championing love for her clients. "I hear you, I understand why you feel that way. Let me reassure you..." is the most impactful phrase when it comes to relationship healing.
Dr. Nickerson said, "Relationships are a critical component to our individual happiness. To be a happy, healthy person, we must have happy, healthy relationships that feel nurturing and safe. To keep our relationships feeling nurturing and safe, we all need to practice listening for feelings, validating hurt feelings and reassuring our loved ones that we care about their feelings."
Active listening, validating your partners' feelings and offering reassurance during tough situations can often make or break a relationship. This is why Dr. Nickerson encourages couples to listen to their partner's feelings. How are they describing the way they feel? Are they happy, sad, worried or hurt?
"Validate those feelings. What did you hear from your partner that made sense or was reasonable? And finally, reassure your partner that you care about their feelings and will act in ways to help them feel safer in the future," Dr. Nickerson urged. "This communication combination—listen, validate, reassure—as exemplified by the healing phrase above, is relationship magic!"
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3. "You do not have bad parts, you have protective parts. The 'worst' parts about you are the parts of you who have tried to keep you safe from the pain."
Lauren Rasmussen is a trauma-informed and trained practitioner who specializes in complex trauma, disordered eating and nervous system regulation. She is a Certified Trauma Informed Coach and NARM Practitioner.
Rasmussen believes this phrase, which is based on the Internal Family Systems model, is the most powerful phrase of repair and relief. Life is not all black and white, and accordingly, we can't view ourselves as all good or all bad. The parts of us that we view as flaws may be valid weaknesses that we want to work on and heal.
But, a lot of our weaknesses are trauma responses and it's important to extend grace to ourselves. Rather than bullying ourselves for our "bad parts," we can go easy on ourselves and focus on what we can control to heal it.
4. "Great relationships—the masters—are built on respect, empathy, and a profound understanding of each other. Relationships don’t last without talk, even for the strong and silent type." –John M. Gottman, Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
Dr. Nickerson has shared a couple of other powerful phrases with Parade amongst the same theme of relationship healing. Just as listening, validation and reassurance are vital to healthy relationships—so are respect, empathy and understanding of one another. Lacking these core values can make for a shaky relationship foundation.
5. "Because I said so."
Charee adds "Because I said so," to the list of the most influential phrases for spiritual and emotional relief. "When we are saying an affirmation and we phrase it in question form such as 'I wonder why I am healed of all my trauma?' and you end it with 'Because I said so!' the brain can just implant this idea easily," Charee tells Parade.
Play the mind game with yourself and implement the idea into your brain seamlessly. "Asking the mind a question, it will go seeking the answer, and by saying 'Because I said so,' this allows the mind to stop searching and just accept this new ideal," says Charee.
6. "The problems you have as an adult started as solutions to survive as a child."
Rasmussen added the above phrase as one of the best phrases to lead to relief and healing. Again, Rasmussen reiterates the importance of being loving and gracious with yourself. You are not inherently "bad" and your flaws are not fatal. Recognize that some of the issues you may be facing now first came to the surface in childhood, and you are doing your best to cope. Healing is possible.
7. "Happily ever after simply means that both partners are known, valued, accepted for who they are and who they are becoming. The goal is to be able to love your partner more deeply each and every year you’re together." –John M. Gottman, Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
Truth is, there is no perfect person or relationship. Movies, TV shows and books have tricked us, but that doesn't mean we can't have our own version of happily ever after. Accept and love your partner as they fully are and see how your relationship begins to mend.
8. "Think of emotional healing as being like the physical healing of a wound—one step at a time. Keep the wound free of further contamination."
Avoid all toxic situations that could set you back on your journey of repair.
9. "The wound is the place where the light enters you." –Rumi
Through our pain, we can find peace.
10. "You've survived 100 percent of your bad days. This one is no different."
Up to this point, you have conquered every single bad day. No matter how bad today is, you can get through this period of your life too.
11. "Healing old hurts can only begin when the children we once were feel safe enough to speak their hearts to the adults we are now." –L.R. Knost
Heal your inner child.
12. "Turn your wounds into wisdom." –Oprah
What can the wounds of the past teach you that you can take with you into your everyday life?
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13. "You are allowed to struggle, you are allowed to talk and you are allowed to take up space."
This powerful healing affirmation reminds anyone that they don't need to shrink themselves in order to fit into places.
14. "Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient." –Steve Maraboli
As we move through life and deal with unpredictable scenarios, our inner strength increases.
15. "You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we’re not. We always have the power of our minds…Claim and consciously use your power." –Louise L. Hay
Reclaim your power to grow—emotionally and spiritually.
16. "Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are." –Rachel Naomi Remen
What is weighing you down? What expectations or beliefs are holding you back from becoming the best version of yourself?
17. "All I can do is all I can do."
Helpful affirmations and phrases have the power to transform. If you ever feel frustrated for not being further, remind yourself that you're doing all you can.
18. "Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy." –Sai Baba
Love heals all wounds. Express love more often.
19. "To recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence." –Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
Acknowledge it.
20. "I am worth taking care of."
Self-worth grows through self-discipline. Take care of yourself well!
21. "Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand." –Sue Thoele
Can you leave your next conversation knowing more about the other person than they know about you? Give it a try by listening and asking questions. This practice can mend and grow relationships.
22. "I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years – counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot – but none of them will work unless you really want to heal." –Lindsay Wagner
There is no secret or magic pill to emotional repair. It only works if you work it. Are you willing to do what it takes?
23. "Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness." –Corrie Ten Boom
Forgiveness is one of the hardest things we can extend to someone that has hurt us. However, forgiveness can heal any negativity or hurt within.
24. "Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it." –Tori Amos
Be courageous and take the steps to find relief.
25. "Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which ones to surf." –Jonatan Martensson
Ride the wave of emotions. Feel it, then heal it.
26. "All healing is first a healing of the heart." –Carl Townsend
Open your heart to the possibility of finding spiritual and emotional relief.
27. "Awareness is the first step in healing." –Dean Ornish
Healing is not possible without first being self-aware of ourselves and self-sabotaging or toxic actions. There is power in self-reflection.
28. "True healing occurs when I give myself permission to feel whatever feelings live below the triggers." –Gabrielle Bernstein
If we don't allow ourselves to feel the emotions that arise from triggers, we stop ourselves from working through them.
29. "Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is." –Gary Zukav
Spread love along your journey.
30. "Everything is within your power, and your power is within you." “–Janice Trachtman
Control the controllable factors and take back your power.
31. "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." –Helen Keller
Because there is suffering, beautiful healing is possible.
32."If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." –Wayne Dyer
Perspective is everything. Change your view, outlook and mindset – then see what happens as a result.
33. "We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go." –Carl Jung
We will always have our painful experiences and wounds of the past. But, time heals all wounds and we learn to let them go.
34. "The placebo effect offers dramatic proof that all healing is essentially self-healing." –Dr. Rick Ingrasci
The mind is a powerful thing. The placebo effect shows that self-healing is truly possible.
35. "When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing." –Rabindranath Tagore
Show your scars as a signal of your strength.
Connect With the Experts
Kathy Nickerson, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and nationally recognized relationship expert who has helped thousands of couples. Over the past 23 years, Kathy has presented marriage and relationship advice at more than 70 conferences, while authoring more than 85 professional articles and books. She has dedicated her career to helping couples strengthen and repair their relationships and is personally invested in championing love for her clients. She reinforces the belief that any relationship—no matter what state it’s in—can dramatically improve with the right advice, tools and strategies.
Candace Charee is a manifestation expert, innovative trauma healing and mindset coach, and founder of Effortless Manifesting, LLC, where she specializes in helping people heal trauma and manifest the lives of their dreams. She is also the creator of Neurocognitive Reprogramming, a method of reprogramming limiting beliefs and past trauma. Candace fuses practical strategies with the teachings of esteemed manifestation teacher, Neville Goddard, to walk her students down the path of creating their best lives and elevating them to the next level.
Lauren Rasmussen is a trauma-informed and trained practitioner who specializes in complex trauma, disordered eating and nervous system regulation. She is a Certified Trauma Informed Coach and NARM Practitioner that holds a degree in Psychology with an emphasis in Behavioral Neuroscience. Lauren's work is deeply rooted in her personal mission and what she has walked through in her own life. She works with clients from all walks of life to help them reclaim their bodies and create a life that they feel safe living.
