Victims of a devastating trauma may never be the same…

I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing…

— Phoebe Stone

“I never learned how to be a woman in this world because I didn't know what it meant to be one. What I learned…

— Elaine Alec

“Trauma's storm can mask the Christ and feelings can lie. I draw all the hurting voices close and I tough their scars with a…

— Ann Voskamp

“While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

“In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject’s homeostatic balance, its unbearable pressure forcing…

— Slavoj Žižek

“no recovery from trauma is possible without attending to issues of safety, care for the self, reparative connections to other human beings, and a…

— Janina Fisher

The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with clarity and…

— Peter A. Levine

“It’s hard to feel supported when you can’t tell people everything. People haven’t really got a clue what it’s like. It’s hard to trust…

— Alice Jamieson

“The Crucified is the One most traumatized. He has borne the World Trade Center. He has carried the Iraq war, the destruction in Syria,…

— Diane Langberg

Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is to help…

— Maia Szalavitz

“With gratitude, I have become a healing balm to thousands of people, if not more, who have suffered child abuse, sibling abuse, a dysfunctional…

— Dana Arcuri CTRC

“We tend to chew life into pieces to make it easier for us to swallow, but the challenge is to know that life is…

— Karl Kristian Flores

As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a kicking for…

— Anthony Horowitz

The NFL acknowledges that repetitive trauma to the head in football... can cause a permanent, disabiling injury to the brain.

— Anonymous

“When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.”

— Sharon Salzberg