“Pleasure fades, gets old, gets thrown out with last year's fad. Fear, guilt, all that stuff stays fresh. Maybe that's why people… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
“TRAUMA STEALS YOUR VOICE People get so tired of asking you what's wrong and you've run out of nothings to tell them.… — nikitta gill Copy Share Image
“We cannot separate forgiveness and social inequality in trauma recovery as forgiveness, trauma, and recovery always occur in a social and political… — Amanda Ann Gregory Copy Share Image
“The damage and invisible scars of emotional abuse are very difficult to heal, because memories are imprinted on our minds and hearts and it… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
“Once the individual has learned to dissociate in the context of trauma, he or she may subsequently transfer this response to other… — Julie P. Gentile Copy Share Image
“Underlying the attack on psychotherapy, I believe, is a recognition of the potential power of any relationship of witnessing. The consulting room… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Having to pretend whole parts of your life didn't happen, just to get through the day, is something nobody ever really talks… — Mr. Joshua Shaw Copy Share Image
“Why Cults Terrorize and Kill Children – LLOYD DEMAUSE The Journal of Psychohistory 21 (4) 1994 "Extending these local figures to a… — Lloyd Demause Copy Share Image
“Too often the survivor is seen by [himself or] herself and others as "nuts," "crazy," or "weird." Unless her responses are understood… — Diane Langberg Copy Share Image
“Traumatic events challenge an individual's view of the world as a just, safe and predictable place. Traumas that are caused by human… — American Psychological Association Copy Share Image
“If your body is screaming in pain, whether the pain is muscular contractions, anxiety, depression, asthma or arthritis, a first step in… — Marilyn Van M. Derbur Copy Share Image
“Understanding that trauma is personal is crucial. It's not the size of the incident that determines its effect on you. It's how… — Danielle Bernock Copy Share Image
“She had taken many more punches to both body and soul than anyone should ever have to endure. But she had been… — Steig Larson Copy Share Image
“We don't go back to wallow, we go back to undo the lies that are back there that are holding its captive… — Darlene Ouimet Copy Share Image
“...until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed.” ~ Christina Ditchkofsky” — Christina Ditchkofsky Copy Share Image
“You’ve already done the hardest part; you survived the trauma. You are much stronger than you think you are.” — Sarah Newman Copy Share Image
“Sadly, psychiatric training still includes far too little on the very serious psychiatric sequelae of childhood trauma, especially CSA [child sexual abuse].… — Joan Coleman Copy Share Image
“I have met many, many severely distressed people whose daily lives are filled with the agony of both remembered and unremembered trauma,… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened Exodus (1960) screenplay” — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
“Even the nurses in the hospital had told me now I had nothing to fear. 'The worst is over for you,' they… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the women's movement of the seventies and eighties brought rape and incest into public consciousness, we can… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
