“Integration is not a finish line; it is a returning, again and again, to the wisdom with new depth, compassion, and embodiment.” — Deva Arani Copy Share Image
“I want to just go back to being the person I was before, but you can't stop being the person you've become.… — Rebecca Rosenblum Copy Share Image
Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others. — Ace Antonio Hall Copy Share Image
“It is not your job to understand. Sick people do sick things. You do not understand the mind of an abuser, because… — Hannah V. Sawyerr Copy Share Image
“Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.” — Asa Don Brown Copy Share Image
“Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one’s authentic self and ceases… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
One challenge is trying to extend access to more poorly served communities in rural areas and in the inner city. Sometimes you… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
I knew for years I wanted to write a novel that addressed the personal trauma of my older sister, who suffered -… — David Means Copy Share Image
You must get Israelis to understand the feelings and the hopes and the traumas of the Palestinians. You have to get the… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
“We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A bad thing happened to you kids, Dad said. But it could have been worse. So much worse, Mom said. But because… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Parts of you are phobic of anger and generally terrified and ashamed of angry dissociative parts. There is often tremendous conflict between… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
I do a lot of book signings and conventions every year, and I meet a great many readers who are struggling... they're… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
Just take Germany and the suffering of Jews during and after the Second World War. It would be legal to ridicule and… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Some things cannot be fixed; they can only be carried. Grief like yours, love like yours, can only be carried. Survival in… — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
“Hyperarousal causes traumatized people to become easily distressed by unexpected stimuli. Their tendency to be triggered into reliving traumatic memories illustrates how… — Marion F. Solomon Copy Share Image
“If your parents’ faces never lit up when they looked at you, it’s hard to know what it feels like to be… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
“For Someone Awakening To The Trauma of His or Her Past: For everything under the sun there is a time. This is… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“Where am I asking others to take responsibility for my life? Let's face it - we would all love to be taken… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“Truth is in our blood. It is the essennce of our being. It is the best part of us, the core of… — Daniel Mackler Copy Share Image
“Bait and Switch by Stewart Stafford Cutthroats robbed me with daggers by night, I cried out ere they melted back to shade:… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I've seen people recover physical abilities, yet never get over emotional trauma after a serious accident. I've seen other people overcome the… — Jim Stovall Copy Share Image
Fear of anti-Semitism almost is part of our religion. Throughout time Jewish people have experienced traumas that we relive in a lot… — Jill Soloway 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
“Bring me Mother Julian’s Scroll within two weeks, or I’ll get that guttersnipe Leni prosecuted for attempted murder. She won’t survive long… — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
“There's a weight in the room now, a remembrance of childhood. It sinks like a stone, or a heart, or my weight… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging. — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision,… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
“Trauma is what happens to you, to your mind and perhaps to your soul, when you can neither fight nor flee.” — Zachary Anderegg Copy Share Image
If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
There's something called toxic stress, which is repeated exposure to trauma. I was fascinated by how it affects the brain and the… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
There was no market for poetry about trauma, abuse, loss, love, and healing through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh immigrant woman. — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“Y'all taught me that unacknowledged scars accumulated in battles won often hurt more than battles lost.” — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn't suffer from PTSD. — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to the hard story, the trauma, because I think art can turn it around. — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
