Life Quote by Amélie Nothomb

“Trauma. It doesn't eke itself out over time. It doesn't split itself manageably into bite-sized chunks and distribute itself equally throughout your life. Trauma…

— Holly Bourne

“Trauma is the great masquerader and participant in many maladies and “dis-eases” that afflict sufferers. It can perhaps be conjectured that unresolved trauma is…

— Peter A. Levine

“It was as if the birds were caught in the repetition of some primal trauma, stuck between what they had and what they wanted.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

So much of life after trauma is about processing healing, which is a lifelong thing. There's really no destination. There are milestones, but it's…

— Eva Victor

“Many survivors of relational and other forms of early life trauma are deeply troubled and often struggle with feelings of anger, grief, alienation, distrust,…

— Christine A. Courtois

“Would they be cheered by their recovery, or marked for life by their trauma?”

— Dan Wells

Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole…

— Tracy Morgan

“It’s hard to feel supported when you can’t tell people everything. People haven’t really got a clue what it’s like. It’s hard to trust…

— Alice Jamieson

The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with clarity and…

— Peter A. Levine

“no recovery from trauma is possible without attending to issues of safety, care for the self, reparative connections to other human beings, and a…

— Janina Fisher

“In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject’s homeostatic balance, its unbearable pressure forcing…

— Slavoj Žižek

“While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk