Collapse Quote by Carolyn Baker

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

— Sue Johnson

“Life is a series of lessons. Crises can be seen as the homework. They aren’t there to defeat us but to help us grow—to…

— Karen Casey

“Some people appear to thrive after trauma. Loss emboldens them, they form great ambitions and stride forward as if nothing, now, could hurt them.…

— Catriona Menzies-Pike

“A crisis is an opportunity to escape programmed living and transform yourself. The more creative and participatory you feel when forced outside of your…

— Jeff Csatari

“My experience has taught me that all of us have a reservoir of untapped strength that comes to the fore at moments of crisis.”

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

When you survive your crisis, you teach us all how to survive it.

— Laura Day

“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

“Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very…

— Bora Chung

“There is a cocoon element to crisis. We hunker down, burying our- selves in the warm embrace of friends, or isolating ourselves and our…

— Susan Mecca

“So much of what we do each day is a diversion from what our lives are really about. A traumatic event is like a…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope,…

— Matthew Quick

“We struggle mightily against the challenges life throws at us: the unexpected tragedies, the cruelties we inflict on each other, the pain and suffering.…

— Michelle Gagnon