“There is a shock that comes so quickly and strikes so deep that the blow is internalized even before then skin feels… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because… — Bora Chung Copy Share Image
I was so tiny when my parents split up that I can't remember them ever being together. That was never an issue,… — Holliday Grainger Copy Share Image
Well to me growing, up I've had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother… — Adam Beach 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
Intense asana practice - too much, too soon - can have detrimental effects. It can also promote a dissociation from the personal… — James Fox 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
I think trauma gets a reductive treatment. We tend to think only violence or molestation or total abandonment qualify as "childhood trauma,"… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“Spiritual assets make us more resilient to the trauma and difficult experiences life inevitably throws at us. Since spiritual assets bring us… — Daniel D. Maurer Copy Share Image
If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“Somatic Symptoms: People with Complex PTSD often have medical unexplained physical symptoms such as abdominal pains, headaches, joint and muscle pain, stomach… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough,… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
Candyman' is so perennial. We're talking about the cycles of violence and how history repeats itself and how we collectively process trauma… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
Any character that has a reference or baggage or emotional trauma, I personally feel, leaves an impact. — Mohit Raina Copy Share Image
The body stores the trauma of our lives in muscular rigidity, thereby keeping us stuck in the past. When we release the… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Integration is not a finish line; it is a returning, again and again, to the wisdom with new depth, compassion, and embodiment.” — Deva Arani Copy Share Image
That is my job as an intellectual, as an extension of my vocation: to engage in a serious reckoning with the present… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Most people do not benefit from psychoanalysis because the trauma lies not in this life but in a past life. — Alexander Cannon Copy Share Image
I was thinking a lot about the aftermath of bad choices, how people deal with the trauma of having survived trauma, if… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
Many quite popular films are filled with violence. I think the difference between those and my films is that I show the… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“Just as sometimes I wondered if Grandpa had ever existed, sometimes I wondered if I truly existed myself. As I was running,… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
At the worst it was eight hours of makeup, and I couldn't sit down; I was in this crouched position. [on the… — Jim Caviezel Copy Share Image
“I looked out the window at midnight and watched the snow drop slowly to the ground. It was 2004 at last and… — Sara Ellie MacKenzie Copy Share Image
