“One of the central elements of resilience, Bonanno has found, is perception: Do you conceptualize an event as traumatic, or as an… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“What daily life is like for “a multiple” Imagine that you have periods of “lost time.” You may find writings or drawings… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Shame is the bane of my existence both as a trauma therapist and as a survivor, as it is one of the… — Amanda Ann Gregory Copy Share Image
“In lieu of letting go of our trauma and rather than healing completely, in my experience, we learn how to carry it… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“We can be trapped by our past and be unable to see what God has ahead for us when we don’t understand… — Ted Roberts Copy Share Image
“You hardly asked if I was okay the entire time we were together.” (Jessie) “Okay? You wanted me to ask you if… — Leanne Davis Copy Share Image
“…is methodical abuse, often using indoctrination, aimed at breaking the will of another human being. In a 1989 report, the Ritual Abuse… — Chrystine Oksana 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
“All abusive systems are facilitated by bystanders, whose awareness of what is disavowed is always partial, resulting in a state of knowing… — Sylvia Solinski Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that human beings are born with an innate capacity to triumph over trauma. I believe not… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“How do we find words for describing levels of betrayal and emotional, physical, sexual and spiritual torture that fragment and destroy a… — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
“Lewis's mental map of reality had difficulty accommodating the trauma of the Great War. Like so many, he found the settled way… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Those traumas when it comes to the historical past generation to generation; our children, our grandchildren, our future grandchildren learn these behaviors.… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
“Specific parts of you personality may be angry and are usually easily evoked. because these parts are dissociated, anger remains an emotion… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“A woman in combat? Yes. Since when? Since Native American warrior Buffalo Calf Road Woman knocked that prick General George Custer off… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
I think quite often we hold onto trauma because we don't process it. — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Trauma is a unique phenomenon all on its own, as if it is an entity in and of itself.” — Paul Levy Copy Share Image
No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries. — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to the hard story, the trauma, because I think art can turn it around. — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
What we found is, art therapy can be used for anyone who's experiencing trauma. — Karen Pence Copy Share Image
“In the region of trauma all duration collapses, past becomes present, and future loses all meaning other than endless repetition.” — Robert Stolorow Copy Share Image
“Nothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma.” — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
“Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.” — Asa Don Brown 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
“A moving target is harder to kill, and I didn't stop running, maneuvering, until I reached home base, where I could breathe… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
One downside of being an optimist is that optimistic people tend to forget yesterday's trauma in the belief that everything will turn… — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
“You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
“There are people who come home from war and want to talk about the pain, but no one wants to listen; there… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“The degree to which the psychiatric community is complicit with abusive parents in drugging non-compliant children is a war crime across the… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
I prefer to record all traumas and save them for later, playing them over and over so they can haunt me for… — Sloane Crosley 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
Its true. Im a simple person. Some people tend to live from trauma to trauma, and that energizes them. I have a… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
I think the important thing is you're able to function as a parent to your other children, if you're lucky enough to… — Jason Watkins Copy Share Image
For too long we have been protecting the ones who have hurt us by minimizing our trauma and deprivation. It's time to… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
In many instances violence - which obviously inflicts tremendous trauma on victims - also inflicts trauma on the perpetrator. Radical evil takes… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
I think that the first responsibility of an artist is to follow truth, and the innate original forces and energies that are… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
Through Heaven's Gate and Back speaks to all of us that have been abused as children. Lee Thornton's descriptions of the aftereffects… — Charles L. Whitfield Copy Share Image