“I look at my mother, connected by a breath of glimmering hope, her red and shadowed eyes reveal that some element of… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“I need to ask, are you afraid of spiders?" Nicholas blinked, suddenly caught off guard, "Yes, I'm afraid of spiders." "Were you… — Stephen M. Irwin Copy Share Image
I often feel trapped. I often feel like I'm trying to escape some trap, be it a way of thinking, a compulsion,… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
“Pleasure fades, gets old, gets thrown out with last year's fad. Fear, guilt, all that stuff stays fresh. Maybe that's why people… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
“I would like to see us grow in developing a deep understanding of the need for healing as an abolitionist practice. Many… — Julia Sudbury Copy Share Image
“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
“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 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
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
“Another gene/environment interaction pertains to depression, a disease involving serotonin abnormalities.33 A gene called 5HTT codes for a transporter that removes serotonin… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“The truth is that anxiety is at once a function of biology and philosophy, body and mind, instinct and reason, personality and… — Scott Stossel 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
Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the… — Stefan Molyneux 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
“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
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
“A four-year-old has so little past, and he remembers almost none of it, neither the father he once had nor the house… — Larry Watson Copy Share Image
“My mother is a certainty. I can count on the watercolour pain in her voice when she calls to say she hasn't… — Trevor Cole Copy Share Image
“People do not change just because time passes. They only change when the bedrocks of their soul begin to move.” — Magdalena Copy Share Image
“Most parents try really hard to give their kids the best possible life. They give them the best food and clothes they… — Thisuri Wanniarachchi Copy Share Image
“But it was impossible to share my feelings of grief with Peggy, because most of the time it was impossible to feel… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed… — Peter Straub 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
“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
I definitely have a dark sense of humor, and in ways I think that comes from having a lot of childhood trauma… — Patti Harrison Copy Share Image
