Ability Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away.

— Mark Epstein

Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe.

— Byron Katie

“Dissociation can be interpreted as an “emergency defense,” or a “shut off mechanism.”[6] According to Allen and Smith,[6] it is understood as an attempt…

— Julie P. Gentile

When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma…

— Matana Roberts

When you have a traumatic experience, you look at your mindset.

— Keith Barry

“Traumatic events, by definition, overwhelm our ability to cope. When the mind becomes flooded with emotion, a circuit breaker is thrown that allows us…

— Susan Pease Banitt

Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.

— Sergei Lukyanenko

I think quite often we hold onto trauma because we don't process it.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we…

— Alfred Adler

Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.

— James Frey

“Trauma-related structural dissociation should be distinguished from more ubiquitous phenomena that are often termed dissociation, but likely have a different underlying process. Over the…

— Onno van der Hart

“what happens when trauma survivors stay emotionally shut down? Trauma’s echoes cannot dissipate. The continuing reverberations gradually erode connection and trust with loved ones.…

— Sue Johnson