Some have reevaluated their own trauma in light of learning about the Bystander Effect. — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
“A cult is a group of people who share an obsessive devotion to a person or idea. The cults described in this… — Margaret Smith Copy Share Image
“There were other strange signals and signs. Another day, suddenly felt an almost overwhelming urge to travel to Balitmore. I wanted to… — Cheryl Hersha 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
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
Indifference is the saddest state of being. It's like PTSD - you're not gonna fight, you're not gonna run, you're just frozen… — Ottessa Moshfegh 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
“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
“You as a whole person are thus unable to reconcile conflicts about anger and learn to tolerate and express anger in healthy… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
If you get an infection, you get a fever; the fever is your body dealing with the infection. If you get traumatized,… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“Take care of your heart and your mind for they are like a garden. And nothing good thrives in a garden full… — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
“It's not your mindset that's holding you back — it's your nervous system.” — Elizabeth morse Copy Share Image
When we go all over the world and observe art therapy, it's used frequently with people who are having some kind of… — Karen Pence Copy Share Image
“Changes in Relationship with others: It is especially hard to trust other people if you have been repeatedly abused, abandoned or betrayed… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“While reliving trauma is dramatic, frightening, and potentially self-destructive, over time a lack of presence can be even more damaging. This is… — Bessel Van Der Kolk Copy Share Image
“We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.” — George Konrád Copy Share Image
The willingness to face traumas - be they large, small, primitive or fresh - is the key to healing from them. They… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological… — Helen Fisher 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
“There are edges around the black and every now and then a flash of color streaks out of the gray. But I… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
