A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling,… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
“It should be the ambition of every true artist to transform wounds and traumas into masterpieces.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“Almost worse than the sorrow of missing her was the fact that Mom's death had revealed everything to be meaningless. So much… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“Traumatic events, by definition, overwhelm our ability to cope. When the mind becomes flooded with emotion, a circuit breaker is thrown that… — Susan Pease Banitt Copy Share Image
“The odd sensation I had while cooking would often last through the meal, then dissolve as I climbed the stairs. I would… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
Unhappiness isn't just the result of genetics or past trauma or career trouble. I think that some of our unhappiness is simply… — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
“Several psychologists (L. Armstrong, 1994; Enns, McNeilly, Corkery, & Gilbert, 1995; Herman, 1992; McFarlane & van der Kolk, 1996; Pope & Brown,… — Rachel E. Goldsmith 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
One of the things that pains me is we have so tragically underestimated the trauma, the hardship we create in this country… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The disturbing part is that no one teaches us how to deal with death at any point during our medical training, or… — DEAN MAFAKO, M.D Copy Share Image
“Alterations in regulation of affect (emotion) and impulse: Almost all people who are seriously traumatized have problems in tolerating and regulating their… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“The wellness remembers the deep living of the wound, & so is happier than any easy health.” — Taisia Kitaiskaia Copy Share Image
“In response to threat and injury, animals, including humans, execute biologically based, non-conscious action patterns that prepare them to meet the threat… — Peter A. Levine 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
“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
Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we're not careful, it'll… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
“Some dissociative parts of the personality, living in trauma time, may experience the same emotion no matter the situation, such as fear,… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the… — Jessica Stern Copy Share Image
“There is no shame in feeling broken. In seeking help. In searching for healing. Sometimes it is the breaking that leads us… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global… — Barbara Kingsolver 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
“Being trauma informed must include respecting and honouring the fact that what is learned from the experience of trauma is a kind… — Linde Zingaro Copy Share Image
“Afterward the Captain was to tell himself that in this one instant he knew everything. Actually, in a moment when a great… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Growing up with my mother who grew up during World War II being half Filipina, half Okinawan, and literally running around the… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
