Mind and heart Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.

— Peter A. Levine

When people are in trauma they need the love of food.

— Andi Oliver

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

— Mary Gauthier

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

The single most important issue for traumatized people is to find a sense of safety in their own bodies,

— 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

“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

I don't want to get into splitting hairs. Trauma is trauma. I'm not in a position to quantify or qualify people's trauma.

— Tarana Burke

“One of the paradoxical and transformative aspects of implicit traumatic memory is that once it is accessed in a resourced way (through the felt…

— Peter A. Levine

“Complexly traumatized children need to be helped to engage their attention in pursuits that do not remind them of trauma-related triggers and that give…

— Sarah Benamer

“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