“Trauma is any terrifying event that instantly changes the world as we know it, leaving us helpless and emotionally overwhelmed.” — Sue Johnson Copy Share Image
“To stay alive, you have to keep moving. Running, relocating, driving, doing everything in your power to stay in motion and make… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“Our identities are tremendously warped and distorted by yesterday's trauma and tomorrow's expectations.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The establishment of Israel was accompanied by much pain and suffering and a real trauma for the Palestinians. — Reuven Rivlin Copy Share Image
“Real- this was real. The horrors- those were nightmares. I was out; I was alive; I was safe.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Victims of a devastating trauma may never be the same biologically. [emphasis added].” Trauma” — Ann Frederick Copy Share Image
Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that… — Cherrie Moraga Copy Share Image
If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“Every existence contains its primal trauma, an event dividing life into a before and an after, a trauma so great that even… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
“The counselor says that with more time and more surgeries, I will begin to feel normal again. She says this with a… — Rasmenia Massoud Copy Share Image
“DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though… — Deborah Bray Haddock Copy Share Image
There's the hypothesis that things just keep happening to Russians, things that keep turning them into the same kind of subjects, as… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
If I had all the filmmakers that traumatized me when I was a little kid in this room, all I would say… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“One of the main problems for anyone working in health care, social work or addiction treatment is the struggle to hold on… — Linde Zingaro Copy Share Image
My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape.… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
When you look at the damage that many of the policies that Donald Trump has proposed can do to our citizens of… — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
Even in New York City, we've seen some major improvements from the way the system was 20 years ago. There's still a… — Rachel Lloyd Copy Share Image
“But he played music so loudly he could not hear his pain. He stunted his growth beneath a bass that decorated his… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
“One other thing—she was always armed. Ossie May talked about her gun even more than she bragged about her cooking. Out of… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
“I can’t think again. Not ever again. I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
All that rejection from Republicans has a bit of a racist element. It was very necessary to have a black president, and… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Survivors often develop an exaggerated need for control in their adult relationships. It’s the only way they feel safe. They also struggle… — Laura Davis Copy Share Image
“The return of the voices would end in a migraine that made my whole body throb. I could do nothing except lie… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“You can travel the world but If you cannot let go of the past, you will never move on.” — Gerald Freeman Copy Share Image
How come nobody in Bollywood has sleepless nights when a woman becomes a victim of abuse and is not able to work… — Tanushree Dutta Copy Share Image
“The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Then again, he supposed the healing process, in contrast to trauma, was gentle and slow... The soft closing of a door, rather… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“We are more than our trauma We are not our diagnosis We are more than the worst things that have ever happened… — Janelle Maree Copy Share Image
“It's just that it's not socially acceptable to say sad stuff out loud in the real world because people think that you're… — Alice Oseman Copy Share Image
“The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Vietnam and Iraq are part of the same national trauma and delusion; we folded the war up when Reagan became president and… — David Means Copy Share Image
“And I knew then that there would be no telling me what he saw. I understand somehow that certain images, certain sounds,… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
As much as 'It Chapter One' is a movie about friendship and the power of unified belief, the second part is more… — Andy Muschietti Copy Share Image
“But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective… — David Jones Copy Share Image
“We can’t deny our journey. We can’t pretend we’re fine when we’re not. All we can do is own it—own our suffering.” — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
I do not condemn any personal choices for intimate relationships. Love is love. I detest only the violence and trauma that any… — Akiane Kramarik Copy Share Image
I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“We don't go back to wallow, we go back to undo the lies that are back there that are holding its captive… — Darlene Ouimet Copy Share Image