“It was an epiphany, the kind only a horrible trauma can induce.” — Jacquelyn Mitchard Copy Share Image
“Adversity has the remarkable ability of introducing the real you to yourself.” — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's hard not to let other people's misery seep into your own bones.” — Gilly Macmillan Copy Share Image
“Trauma is what happens to you, to your mind and perhaps to your soul, when you can neither fight nor flee.” — Zachary Anderegg Copy Share Image
Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision,… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
The depiction of Black history in British schools and on TV has mainly been trauma and struggle-based. — Judi Love Copy Share Image
“Integration is not a finish line; it is a returning, again and again, to the wisdom with new depth, compassion, and embodiment.” — Deva Arani Copy Share Image
“I want to just go back to being the person I was before, but you can't stop being the person you've become.… — Rebecca Rosenblum Copy Share Image
Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others. — Ace Antonio Hall Copy Share Image
“Veterans being sent into unjust wars for corporate profit is a perversion of trust, at best. I found the emotional manipulation of… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when something changes you... No matter the impact... Where the world no longer beats in time with you.… — Solange nicole Copy Share Image
“All emotions, even those that are suppressed and unexpressed, have physical effects. Unexpressed emotions tend to stay in the body like small… — Marilyn Van M. Derbur Copy Share Image
“Over the years, I learned to smile or laugh when I was supposed to. I kept my true self hidden; I did… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“One of the paradoxical and transformative aspects of implicit traumatic memory is that once it is accessed in a resourced way (through… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The character of the disillusioned warrior soothed by the simplicity and silence of nature is an archetype of this war-driven, industrialized era.… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“The programme into which Cheryl was inducted combined all the different ways the intelligence community had learned could cause intense psychological change… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“Type II trauma also often occurs within a closed context - such as a family, a religious group, a workplace, a chain… — Christine A. Courtois Copy Share Image
“Chronic trauma (according to the meaning I propose) that occurs early in life has profound effects on personality development and can lead… — Elizabeth F. Howell Copy Share Image
“Dr. Peter Levine, who has worked with trauma survivors for twenty-five years, says the single most important factor he has learned in… — Marilyn Van M. Derbur Copy Share Image
“When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The thing about baggage, though, is it's still heavy whether you unpack it or not.” — Rosiee Thor Copy Share Image
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
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