“Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue… — Danielle Bernock Copy Share Image
For a long time, it was all about chart position. 'If my record doesn't come in at No. 1, I'm a failure.'… — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how tough we are. Trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home, changes our lives. Trauma messes everybody… — Yasjaradat Copy Share Image
If you have suffered from trauma, one of the most healing things that can happen to you is being seen. Being seen… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“There's a power in understanding what the neurological patterning of trauma can do to ones mind, body and soul. When you seek… — Nikki rowe Copy Share Image
Among young people, often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships. They throw themselves into a… — Vincent Nichols Copy Share Image
“I danced in the flames and pranced on the shames of those whose names I could not reveal. I have been told,… — The Raveness Copy Share Image
“you are not an athlete because of what you can do, but because of who you are: a team player, someone who… — Rosemary Rawlins Copy Share Image
“... stress hormones are meant to give us the strength and endurance to respond to extraordinary conditions. People who actively do something… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
There are those uncomfortable things that've passed that you have to deal with or they define you, like childhood trauma. Like when… — Mike Ness Copy Share Image
Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Trauma. It doesn't eke itself out over time. It doesn't split itself manageably into bite-sized chunks and distribute itself equally throughout your… — Holly Bourne Copy Share Image
“The door suddenly jerks open. A wide-eyed teenager bursts out. She stares at me in dazed horror. In a strange way, I… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
We forgive, if we are wise, not for the other person, but for ourselves. We forgive, not to erase a wrong, but… — Tian Dayton Copy Share Image
“Our REM sleep in 90-minute bursts, in a 24 hour cycle "digests" trauma that is experienced on a daily basis. In dreaming,… — Marion F. Solomon Copy Share Image
I believe that at the beginning of the life of every artist there is some kind of trauma. We have a problem… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
“That day wasn't the first time I had attempted suicide. Simply disappearing into the distant nothingness where there was no pain and… — Natascha Kampusch Copy Share Image
“As a survivor of sibling abuse, the toxic shame is not for the survivor to carry. You didn’t do anything wrong. You… — Dana Arcuri CTRC Copy Share Image
“There was no going back now. Rubber and metal could only take so much. The car could shatter and send its passengers… — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
I know I'm breaking a taboo by using the term antiwhite racism, but I do so intentionally, because it's the reality some… — Jean-Francois Cope Copy Share Image
When somebody says that six million people died in the Holocaust, there is nobody in the world who can understand that. It's… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The body stores the trauma of our lives in muscular rigidity, thereby keeping us stuck in the past. When we release the… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
9/11 was a genuine trauma, and President George W. Bush rallied the country. I think the Iraq war was ill-considered, but there… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
“There is a shock that comes so quickly and strikes so deep that the blow is internalized even before then skin feels… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My personal history, along with the history of many black people in this country, is rife with trauma born out of anti-black… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
“Some memories never heal. Rather than fading with the passage of time, those memories become the only things that are left behind… — Han Kang Copy Share Image
The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of… — Denise Crosby Copy Share Image
“It is a political fight between a group of well-financed, well-organized people whose freedom, livelihood, finances, reputations, or liberty is being threatened… — Anna C. Salter Copy Share Image
“Many deeply hidden memories have come flooding back. The important message here though is that it is possible to heal and survive.… — Lynette Gould Copy Share Image
“In order to believe clients' accounts of trauma, you need to suspend any pre-conceived notions that you have about what is possible… — Aphrodite Matsakis Copy Share Image
The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is,… — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
“Is the person I was before dead? Or will the worst things that happened to me eventually get diluted by the rest… — Rebecca Rosenblum Copy Share Image
“Do normal people do this...? Do they get happy and sad at different times? I could be ok one day and then… — Sara Ellie MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had no lasting physical trauma nor a psychological one. Yet, it was hard to return to the old path. I found… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
I was in the orphanage in New Orleans until I was almost a year old. I don't think I ever got held… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
“Trauma is the great masquerader and participant in many maladies and “dis-eases” that afflict sufferers. It can perhaps be conjectured that unresolved… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
I grew up in a pretty economically safe, physically safe household, and, you know, now my life is defined by other people's… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
“Success and failure can both make you lose appetite and concentration, don't let it bother or over-excite you, just think them away… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
