Healing Quote by Bessel A. van der Kolk

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

— Sue Johnson

“But trauma is all pervasive. It does not go away. It continues to reassert itself as life unfolds.”

— M.D Mark Epstein

“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

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

— Zachary Anderegg

“Some events are so harrowing, they either shape who we become or we move past them. They either break us entirely, or we pick…

— Rachel Thompson

“We go through so much trauma in this world. At least we get to die.”

— Mitta Xinindlu

“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

“What more is there to say than it was traumatic, a moment that breaks your life in half? That you never heal from it,…

— John Hodgman

“I knew that my trauma, no matter what it was, was not unique. I knew that pain was the universal driving force of so…

— Lydia Lunch

“Trauma stories are no more valid or noble than stories of love and heroism. Trauma stories are like black holes in space. They suck…

— Annette Vaillancourt

“The traumatized soul finds no rest in conditions of peace. It’s forever questing for violence, for action, for the same combination of factors which…

— Matthew S. Williams