I have been through a lot of medical trauma. I was diagnosed with breast cancer . — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
Some have reevaluated their own trauma in light of learning about the Bystander Effect. — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
“Don't allow triggers To rob you of sound judgement. Question your feelings.” — Sanjo Jendayi Copy Share Image
“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself.” — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
It is the rare and strong person that can carry their trauma without having it spill into the next generation. — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
In order to be a good emergency contact, you need a lot of friend-patience and empathy. Often, this comes from personal experience… — Mary H.K. Choi 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
“Phrases such as "I'm beside myself," "I was frightened to pieces," "I feel lost," "I feel like part of me is missing,"… — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“I think I broke Kerri,” she said. “Go fix her,” Al commanded, unfazed. “We’ve got enough broken parts.” — Edgar Cantero Copy Share Image
As a European from a different, younger generation, the trauma that was Nixon's presidency never really had a hold over me. For… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“I think a look at suffering humanity would lead to the realization that trauma is perhaps the greatest mission field of the… — Diane Mandt Langberg Copy Share Image
[The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing next to the… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“If you have been raped or sexually assaulted and you have been blamed, or fear that you may be blamed, I just… — Robert Uttaro Copy Share Image
When I started talking to my therapist, we hit the source of my PTSD and the trauma that came from the things… — Charlamagne tha God Copy Share Image
“Look at us. One bleeding body, one corpse, and a husk who's been half dead for years. No one who took an… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I began to think that there was a place for 'Footloose' to get retold again, that there was actually a more conducive… — Craig Brewer Copy Share Image
“You’re not ready, Skayld. You say you aren’t damaged, but you are. You’re terrified of forming emotional attachments. You might be ready… — Jane Washington Copy Share Image
I remember being at the church a few hours after the church was bombed in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church. It… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true… — Tammy Duckworth Copy Share Image
“Chemistry is not destiny, certainly. But these scientists have demonstrated that the most reliable way to produce an adult who is brave… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
“But resiliency only means that a thing retains its shape. That it doesn’t break, or lose its ability to function. It doesn’t… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
“He doesn’t lock the door anymore—not out of courage, but quiet desperation. Each night, he lies there, hollowed and waiting, hoping a… — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
“The observer self, a part of who we really are, is that part of us that is watching both our false self… — Charles L. Whitfield Copy Share Image
At the Third Wave Foundation, we were asking questions like, "How can we get more voters registered who support our issues?" or… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
“Why do I take a blade and slash my arms? Why do I drink myself into a stupor? Why do I swallow… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Until we understand that traumatic symptoms are physiological as well as psychological, we will be woefully inadequate in our attempts to heal… — Ann Frederick Copy Share Image
“I shared with Fleur the mysterious self-contempt of the survivor. There were times we hated who we were, and who we had… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's hard not to let other people's misery seep into your own bones.” — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
“Adversity has the remarkable ability of introducing the real you to yourself.” — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“It was an epiphany, the kind only a horrible trauma can induce.” — Jacquelyn Mitchard Copy Share Image
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