Body Quote by Bessel van der Kolk

Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded…

— Bessel van der Kolk

It's insulting when outsiders come in and tell a traumatized people what it will take for them to heal... People who have lived through…

— Leymah Gbowee

“traumatized people find themselves reenacting some aspect of the trauma scene in disguised form, without realizing what they are doing….There”

— Jon Krakauer

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

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“In response to threat and injury, animals, including humans, execute biologically based, non-conscious action patterns that prepare them to meet the threat and defend…

— Peter A. Levine

Safety is the most basic task of all. Without sense of safety, no growth can take place. Without safety, all energy goes to defense

— Anonymous

“Devote yourself to your partner's sense of safety and security and not simply to your idea about what that should be. What may make…

— Stan Tatkin

Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed.…

— Elizabeth Strout

"Once there, always there", would give you less freedom than you recently enjoyed, but more security. Security not in the sense of safety from…

— Zygmunt Bauman

“Organizations like the UN do a lot of good, but there are certain basic realities they never seem to grasp ...Maybe the most important…

— Leymah Gbowee

“Changes in Meaning: Finally, chronically traumatized people lose faith that good things can happen and people can be kind and trustworthy. They feel hopeless,…

— Suzette Boon

“Highly traumatized and chronically neglected or abused individuals are dominated by the immobilization/shutdown system. On the other hand, acutely traumatized people (often by a…

— Peter A. Levine