For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization. — Melissa Farley Copy Share Image
“Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can't look at her. Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn't… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“Trauma cracks us open (or for some of us, cuts us open) so the Holy Spirit can get in. So we can… — Carolyn Weber Copy Share Image
“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. It cheapens and degrades the human… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I was having to go out there and be this happy pop character when, in reality, I was processing this unaddressed trauma… — Raye Copy Share Image
Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
“Because if I am living an honest life, and my eyes are open, and I'm trying my hardest to be good and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
With veterans, we want them to be able to talk about their struggles and sometimes they can't. Sometimes they're dealing with trauma… — Karen Pence Copy Share Image
When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
Step-parenting and being a step-sibling presents a lot of exciting opportunities. When families break up and re-form, there may be less order,… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“All emotions, even those that are suppressed and unexpressed, have physical effects. Unexpressed emotions tend to stay in the body like small… — Marilyn Van M. Derbur Copy Share Image
“Over the years, I learned to smile or laugh when I was supposed to. I kept my true self hidden; I did… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
“Changes in Meaning: Finally, chronically traumatized people lose faith that good things can happen and people can be kind and trustworthy. They… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“Hearing directly from a person who has been hurt in a profound way gives the listener a secondary trauma. When a Swedish… — Ved P. Varma Copy Share Image
“By the time Cheryl Hersha came to the facility, knowledge of multiple personality was so complete that doctors understood how the mind… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“The surgical resident interested in learning trauma will bypass a residency at a quiet community hospital for a residency at a fast-paced… — Marian Deegan Copy Share Image
“I no longer seek those things that help me to heal but for those things that fortify me with the strength required… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“imagine your heart is just a ball you learned to dribble up and down the length of your driveway back home. slow… — Brionne Janae Copy Share Image
“Rufus didn’t pay any attention to the voice back then. At that time, he attributed the voice to his lack of confidence,… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
Writing helps us heal in certain way, but it doesn't make the experience of thinking about writing that occasion any less painful.… — Sarah Gerard Copy Share Image
I've DP'd so many films for first-time directors, and I know the trauma, the heartbreak, the vulnerability, how much you have to… — Reed Morano Copy Share Image
My mother found herself in a triangular situation of my father and his legitimate wife. I experienced the emotional trauma of that… — Mahesh Bhatt Copy Share Image
“The air is cold and dusk has descended. In the distance lightning flickers and a far away rumble of thunder awakens my… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“Essentially all serial offenders experience trauma in childhood that leaves them unable to form normal emotional and psychological connections with other humans.” — Joanna Schaffhausen Copy Share Image
Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact… — Anne Grant Copy Share Image
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
“When trauma involves intentional harm, such as in a crime or abuse, trust can totally collapse.” — Dena Rosenbloom Copy Share Image
If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
People are depressed for many reasons, one of which I think is how we have been taught to react to trauma, to… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I don't think I understood the full extent of the trauma experienced by people who churn through America's prisons until I began… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark.” — Elaine N. Aron Copy Share Image
Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play. — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
Dr. Shapiro is a pioneer in the field of helping people overcome trauma and negative past experiences. — Daniel Amen Copy Share Image
Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal. — bell hooks Copy Share Image
I'm still coping with my trauma, but coping by trying to find different ways to heal it rather than hide it. — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
I didn't rape myself. I'm not the one who made myself have mental trauma. Not all of it is my own doing. — Naquitta Faith Copy Share Image
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