“I never learned how to be a woman in this world because I didn't know what it meant to be one. What… — Elaine Alec Copy Share Image
I do believe that we all have these stories inside of us, these scars that we compulsive worry as we do wounds,… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough,… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
“In movies, war only looks romantic. “Tell my gal I love her…” close-up shot, and fade out. It doesn’t work as beautifully… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling,… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Football is an absolutely idiotic pastime by any rational standards. You're running into other people as hard as you can, you get… — Chris Kluwe Copy Share Image
“He asks, in a softer voice, "Does your arm still hurt?" You touch it with your hand. The big ache is gone,… — Jim Grimsley Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I… — Hani Furstenberg Copy Share Image
“Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
Do not assume that divine guidance flows only when you are in need of help. Guidance continues to flow whether or not… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“Many survivors of relational and other forms of early life trauma are deeply troubled and often struggle with feelings of anger, grief,… — Christine A. Courtois Copy Share Image
A ghost is a human being who has passed out of the physical body, usually in a traumatic state and is not… — Hans Holzer 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
“I recently consulted to a therapist who felt he had accomplished something by getting his dissociative client to remain in her ANP… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“The internal system of an abuse victim differs from the non-abuse system with regard to the consistent absence of the effective leadership,… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, for many many years I didn't talk about my childhood and then when I did I got a ton of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Secret, smug believers! God never gives you more than you can bear, they like to say, as if the strong should be… — Brenda Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
“Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue… — Danielle Bernock Copy Share Image
“Nowadays many psychologists have found evidence that post traumatic stress disorder can be a cause of long-term emotional and physical problems, even… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“With gratitude, I have become a healing balm to thousands of people, if not more, who have suffered child abuse, sibling abuse,… — Dana Arcuri CTRC Copy Share Image
“Most dissociative parts influence your experience from the inside rather than exert complete control, that is, through passive influence. * In fact,… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
I often feel trapped. I often feel like I'm trying to escape some trap, be it a way of thinking, a compulsion,… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
I am often asked how I can work with a subject as morbid as trauma without becoming burned out or depressed. My… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“Rape is so particularly traumatic and so meaningful in so many ways, that there’s something about using the word in other contexts… — Sandra Brindley Copy Share Image
What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“Denial is our very real, personal response to our own trauma. But denial is the normative response to trauma—by everyone. Society may… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between… — Cathy Caruth Copy Share Image
Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
“For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“profound trauma—and clearly this would qualify—can transform a person’s entire character, you know: turn a strong person into a trembling wreck, a… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals--that they can't help but… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Whoever he said he was, thought Marsh, he was not from the immigration department, and the web that he was convinced Walsh… — Michael Parker Copy Share Image
“No, Sky. You didn't tell her everything…you told you everything. Those things happened to you, not to someone else. They happened to… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“There is no “letting go.” I would dare to take it further and say there is no healing from trauma. For nearly… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
I think that definitely any trauma - whether it's childhood or later in life - affects you negatively, especially when it's suppressed,… — Roland Orzabal Copy Share Image
Rwanda, which is one of the younger independent states in Africa, must be regarded as a model of how great human trauma… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“I cannot help but come to believe, there should be a disclaimer for the soul upon entering this life stating: This will… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
One of my priorities is giving victims the right to choose different paths to restoration and to healing. It's prioritizing having restitution… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
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