Black hole Quote by Annette Vaillancourt

“Trauma is any terrifying event that instantly changes the world as we know it, leaving us helpless and emotionally overwhelmed.”

— Sue Johnson

“A traumatic experience is a seismic event that shakes our belief in a just world, robbing us of the sense that life is controllable,…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“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

“Trauma is a unique phenomenon all on its own, as if it is an entity in and of itself.”

— Paul Levy

“We are traumatized people. And nothing else has trauma’s power to deform the mind and heart.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When the force…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“certain incidents do more than just touch our raw spots or “hurt our feelings.” They injure us so deeply that they overturn our world.…

— Sue Johnson

“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

“Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.”

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

“Trauma is what happens to you, to your mind and perhaps to your soul, when you can neither fight nor flee.”

— Zachary Anderegg

When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma…

— Matana Roberts

My story is just my story, and it's not nearly as traumatic as some.

— Paul Dini