Complex-ptsd Quote by Carolyn Spring

“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

“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

“With gratitude, I have become a healing balm to thousands of people, if not more, who have suffered child abuse, sibling abuse, a dysfunctional…

— Dana Arcuri CTRC

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

— Sue Johnson

People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting.

— Mary Gauthier

“In lieu of letting go of our trauma and rather than healing completely, in my experience, we learn how to carry it and there…

— L.M. Browning

“In therapy, to meet the needs of traumatized survivors of war and torture, the patient is requested to repeatedly talk about the worst traumatic…

— Alfred Nestor

“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

“A life of hardship and personal suffering is unavoidable. A person must endure many humiliations of the mind and body, and expect persons whom…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“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

“Trauma is the great masquerader and participant in many maladies and “dis-eases” that afflict sufferers. It can perhaps be conjectured that unresolved trauma is…

— Peter A. Levine

“Painful experiences are like scars in our minds. Some have healed and been forgotten. Others are there as a reminder of what we have…

— James A. Murphy