“A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself. — Michael Gruber Copy Share Image
“You have learned to treasure the inconsistent warmth of others, and this is why you will spend years confusing scarcity for love.” — Magdalena Copy Share Image
I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
“It made old childhood traumas rise up like bad Chinese food does the next day.” — Eli Easton Copy Share Image
Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Here's something a little more personal: In my teens, I was having a hard time and ended up in a therapy group… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“Another reason it's dangerous to acknowledge that you were unloved is that it implies the possibility that your mother may have been… — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
“We don’t necessarily need to know each other’s name, age, profession, drug of choice, childhood trauma or recent tragedy to understand what… — Marta Mrotek Copy Share Image
I think at people's core, everybody's just looking to be healed inside because we all coming with childhood trauma, especially people of… — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
“I can’t stop and all I have is a word addiction. Conjunction-Junction really fucked me up as a kid. This is all… — Jesse James Freeman Copy Share Image
“Your Mom's Car. Think about that. Try to wrap your brain around the supernatural and spiritual implications that the name bears down… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“SCREW CHILDREN! That's the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“I wonder how much- or how little- they remember. I am somehow convinced that they don't remember any of it, because they… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Attachment. A secure attachment is the ability to bond; to develop a secure and safe base; an unbreakable or perceivable inability to… — Asa Don Brown Copy Share Image
“If your mother lived your life as though it were her own-never allowing you a moment of stress or frustration, routinely sleeping… — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
“The manic relief that comes from the fantasy that we can with one savage slash cut the chains of the past and… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
I think trauma gets a reductive treatment. We tend to think only violence or molestation or total abandonment qualify as "childhood trauma,"… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“The beautiful stranger cuddled Cindy, and she rocked the chair slightly as she spoke softly to her. “Suicide is a problem, not… — Shafter Bailey Copy Share Image
“Today, as adults, we know that our efforts were exploited, that this was not love in the true sense of the word.… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“An important note about Roxannah's background. In my conversation with Dr. Jessica Sanderson (please see Author Acknowledgements), what became obvious to me… — Tessa Afshar Copy Share Image
“It makes perfect sense that if human beings are raised in warm, loving households; if they are brought up to believe that… — Harold Schechter Copy Share Image
“Sadly, psychiatric training still includes far too little on the very serious psychiatric sequelae of childhood trauma, especially CSA [child sexual abuse].… — Joan Coleman Copy Share Image
“ACEs are traumatic childhood events, and their consequences reach far into adulthood. The trauma need not be physical. The following events or… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“My best advice about writer’s block is: the reason you’re having a hard time writing is because of a conflict between the… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
“Words speak, "A Cure For Wellness" "Volmer: Do you know what the cure for the human condition is? Disease. Because that's the… — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
“Emotional abuse can leave a victim feeling like a shell of a person, separated from the true essence of who they naturally… — Lorraine Nilon Copy Share Image
“The beautiful stranger cuddled Cindy, and she rocked the chair slightly as she spoke softly to her. “Suicide is a problem, not… — Shafter Bailey Copy Share Image
People who have had severe childhood traumas lack the ability to regulate emotions and, as a result, gravitate toward whatever primitive means… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
But really, what else are you going to talk about in line at the liquor store? Childhood trauma seems like the natural… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
“Soul Abuse is the destruction of a victim's awareness of the strength within their soul. It stems from the abuser's intention to… — Lorraine Nilon Copy Share Image
“Childhood trauma and sufferings does not provide us with an excuse for our problems. It explains the origins of our problems while… — Peter R Breggin Copy Share Image
I don't remember my childhood very well for one reason or another, possibly childhood trauma or possibly just a very bad memory.… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“But I wanted to cook. I needed to cook. Mom had raised me with the implicit understanding that cooking is the answer… — Sasha Martin Copy Share Image
I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles -… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
I was quite shy when I was younger, but I'm not one of those people who can complain of a bad childhood… — Emilia Fox Copy Share Image
“If it is your fault that your mother is miserable, it becomes a potentially fixable affront. Taking blame means that at least… — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image