I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we… — Phoebe Stone Copy Share Image
“I never learned how to be a woman in this world because I didn't know what it meant to be one. What… — Elaine Alec Copy Share Image
“While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
“In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject’s homeostatic balance, its unbearable… — Slavoj Žižek 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
“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… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“The Crucified is the One most traumatized. He has borne the World Trade Center. He has carried the Iraq war, the destruction… — Diane Langberg Copy Share Image
Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
“With gratitude, I have become a healing balm to thousands of people, if not more, who have suffered child abuse, sibling abuse,… — Dana Arcuri CTRC Copy Share Image
“We tend to chew life into pieces to make it easier for us to swallow, but the challenge is to know that… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
The NFL acknowledges that repetitive trauma to the head in football... can cause a permanent, disabiling injury to the brain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Those of us who work in the field of trauma and abuse, whether psychologists, psychoanalysts, social workers, doctors, counselors, or psychotherapists, have… — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
The signs of good health are an intellect which is free from inhibition and arrogance, a heart which is full of compassion… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar 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
The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
There's a lot of black men running around with crazy trauma scars, and they should be going to therapy. They should be… — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
Trauma super charges addiction and makes it really bad. It doesn't necessarily cause it, though it can trigger it. It's not necessarily… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
When our response to all trauma is to call the police, then that gets us into a cycle of perpetuating trauma. Mental… — Deray McKesson Copy Share Image
Danced healing rituals (in African village compounds, temple courtyards, dance-therapy studios, public theaters, and other social settings) reinvoke old traumas for exorcism… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
“Survivors are damaged to different degrees by their experiences. This does not depend on what happened physically. A Survivor who has been… — Carolyn Ainscough Copy Share Image
I would have liked to be on the streets of Manhattan during 9/11. My working theory is that people are much kinder… — Claire Cameron 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
“Clench clench these strong teeth in this strong mouth. My mouth. Of my body. In my house. My mouth? Chapped lips swollen… — Camilla Gibb Copy Share Image
