Dark secrets Quote by Bessel A. van der Kolk

Traces that live within us often lead us to our stories

— Dani Shapiro

“Traumatic memories have a number of unusual qualities. They are not encoded like the ordinary memories of adults in a verbal, linear narrative that…

— Jon Krakauer

Some leave a bone of memories.To be remembered. Some leave without a trace and be forgotten.

— Louaiq8

“Our innate wiring, our brains are wired to crave for connections & relationships, but trauma; past experiences, rewires them for protection, self-preservation. Thus maintaining…

— Carson Anekeya

“In the process of decluttering things in my life, I was peeling off the layers of my past that no longer mattered to my…

— Lisa J. Shultz

“We don't recognize those times in our existence, when fate rolls around to sever relationships, to remove an object of such immense magnitude from…

— Madison Thorne Grey

“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

“Stuffing our memories might become familiar over the years, but it requires a mental vigilance that separates us from our inner world. It's building…

— Jeanne McElvaney

To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting,…

— Peter Straub

After a traumatic event, people tend to store a series of memories and arrange them into a meaningful narrative. They remember exactly where they…

— David Grann

“The traumatic event, although real, took place outside the parameters of “normal” reality, such as causality, sequence, place, and time. The trauma is thus…

— Dori Laub

Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer.Memories r not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics. they can be…

— Lady Gaga