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
The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect. — Peter A. Levine 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
No doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is, in effect, to conjure it up mentally,… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
“Changes in the Perception of Self: People who have been traumatized in childhood are often troubled by guilt, shame, and negative feelings… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“I shoot the man who told me my womanism is of the devil As if he knew the demons that trouble me… — Hannah V. Sawyerr Copy Share Image
“Can I dwell on what I scarce remember? I held a castle on the Marches once, and there was a woman I… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.” — Sharon Salzberg 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
The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released… — Mrinalini Sarabhai Copy Share Image
Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live. — James Frey Copy Share Image
“Stop pretending to be happy! If the relationship isn’t working let it go, and save you both from tolerating each other. Release… — Keishorne Scott Copy Share Image
“Parts of you are phobic of anger and generally terrified and ashamed of angry dissociative parts. There is often tremendous conflict between… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“After the fog lifts and you awaken to the truth about abuse, the narcissist and flying monkeys will minimize the facts about… — Dana Arcuri, Certified Trauma Recovery Coach Copy Share Image
“I knew that my trauma, no matter what it was, was not unique. I knew that pain was the universal driving force… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
“There's a weight in the room now, a remembrance of childhood. It sinks like a stone, or a heart, or my weight… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native.… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional… — Sting Copy Share Image
“The health of our gut is impacted by our food, lifestyle, toxins, stress, and trauma in our lives, and no drug or… — Nicole Carter Copy Share Image
Because people's desire to be comfortable supersedes their desire for self knowledge and well being, they avoid any form of discomfort. This… — Ben Stewart Copy Share Image
Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“How we are seen can literally call parts of us into existence and shape new selves in the image of the one… — Bonnie Badenoch Copy Share Image
