“Father-daughter incest is not only the type of incest most frequently reported but also represents a paradigm of female sexual victimization. The… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“I was walking along one day and smacked into this wall called hope deferred and depression and...grief. And it wouldn't budge. After… — Ashley Nikole Copy Share Image
“If I was set an essay on Friday, I’d spend three hours on Saturday morning in the library. Was that normal? I… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Just as sometimes I wondered if Grandpa had ever existed, sometimes I wondered if I truly existed myself. As I was running,… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Combat and rape, the public and private forms of organized social violence, are primarily experiences of adolescent and early adult life. The… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
I write about how I was attracted to stripping because I didn't feel comfortable with my body, for instance, but there could… — Craig Seymour Copy Share Image
“The most insidious of our country, the greediest and highest rung of our socioeconomic ladder, line their pockets with misappropriated funds as… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When you are doing seven shows a week, you have to take care of yourself. There are some moments when you cannot… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t matter if someone drowns in a bathtub, a swimming pool, a lake, or an ocean. It doesn’t matter if someone… — Sean Norris Copy Share Image
“The memories seem to come in layers. For example, the first memory might be of incest; then they remember robes and candles;… — Glenn L. Pace Copy Share Image
“Over the years our mother has beaten us with belts, shoes, rulers, extension cords, hair brushes, a wooden spoon, a fly swatter,… — Bob Thurber Copy Share Image
“Complexly traumatized children need to be helped to engage their attention in pursuits that do not remind them of trauma-related triggers and… — Sarah Benamer Copy Share Image
“Blame is a Defense Against Powerlessness Betrayal trauma changes you. You have endured a life-altering shock, and are likely living with PTSD… — Sandra Lee Dennis Copy Share Image
“Our favorite film is Vertigo . Amy Eleni and I must watch it seventeen or eighteen times a year, and with each… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
We have the tendency to judge others by their surface appearance, and to find only their negative qualities. But if we search… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
“The men and women who continue to hold Lynn's mind hostage against her will believe the future will be tilled with terrorism,… — Lynn Hersha Copy Share Image
I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Trauma really does confront you with the best and the worst. You see the horrendous things that people do to each other,… — Bessel van der Kolk Copy Share Image
“Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies. I want to be… — Noor Hindi Copy Share Image
“The nutritionist said I should eat root vegetables. Said if I could get down thirteen turnips a day I would be grounded,… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
“The traumatic event, although real, took place outside the parameters of “normal” reality, such as causality, sequence, place, and time. The trauma… — Dori Laub Copy Share Image
“The bodily experience we have taken in from [other people that our body has internalized as 'imported parts'] will affect our muscles,… — Bonnie Badenoch Copy Share Image
I liked trumpet because it's related to boxing, but also it has a capacity to create a different type of beauty. There… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
“To take a specific example, a researcher in the Journal of Traumatic Stress interviewed 129 women with documented histories of child sexual… — Janet Walker Copy Share Image
“The experience of psychological trauma, as is typically diagnosed (posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD]), has at least some of the following symptoms: •… — Alan Downs Copy Share Image
“I became skilled at covering my tracks, filling in the blanks. Sometimes the blanks were never filled. At other times, I would… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
The trauma of 9/11 stimulated infinite possibilities for worry - some quite plausible, but most inspired by remote what-if fantasies. A society… — William Greider Copy Share Image
This artistic uprising we had the other night in Washington Square park: there was poetry, there was dance, there was song, there… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“Her mother wears it in her eyes: the grief, the regrets, the guilt. She has the body of a twenty-year-old. Eyes like… — Daniel Abbott Copy Share Image
The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“Cheryl's growing awareness of her emotional difficulties was leading her to research multiple personality. As she had learned more about dissociation, she… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
Aunt May's values and Spiderman's traumas are kind of what's defined him as a young boy and now that he's becoming a… — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
“I watch what happens below and I am grateful that I can smell my smell, smell my smell and live while below… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“A cult is a group of people who share an obsessive devotion to a person or idea. The cults described in this… — Margaret Smith Copy Share Image
“What I wanted was to get away. But the moon was too far beyond, and there were white bits under me, where… — Tsitsi Dangarembga Copy Share Image
The trauma of the whole thing has been humbling, and for the first time, I'm a little bit wobbly. I'm a case… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
“Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
Do not assume that divine guidance flows only when you are in need of help. Guidance continues to flow whether or not… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“Many survivors of relational and other forms of early life trauma are deeply troubled and often struggle with feelings of anger, grief,… — Christine A. Courtois Copy Share Image
![“The bodily experience we have taken in from [other people that our body has internalized as 'imported parts'] will affect our muscles, belly and heart brains, autonomic nervous system, eyes, ears and vocal cords when they are active in us. While carrying this much of others can feel like an…” quote by Bonnie Badenoch](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/56b/bonnie-badenoch-61061_bodily_the-bodily-experience-we-have-taken-in-f_2558254.jpg)
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