Different Quote by Matana Roberts

I am often asked how I can work with a subject as morbid as trauma without becoming burned out or depressed. My answer to…

— Peter A. Levine

When you grow up with a significant amount of trauma, you are realizing it as you get older, and you're realizing the ways you…

— Patrisse Cullors

“The traumatic event, although real, took place outside the parameters of “normal” reality, such as causality, sequence, place, and time. The trauma is thus…

— Dori Laub

“I have met many, many severely distressed people whose daily lives are filled with the agony of both remembered and unremembered trauma, who try…

— Carolyn Spring

We all know how to focus on trauma. This is the struggle. We have the opportunity to respect our journey and focus on joy.

— Rege-Jean Page

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

— Byron Katie

“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

Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You…

— Jessica Stern

Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.

— Peter A. Levine

I have come to the conclusion that human beings are born with an innate capacity to triumph over trauma. I believe not only that…

— Peter A. Levine

So much of life after trauma is about processing healing, which is a lifelong thing. There's really no destination. There are milestones, but it's…

— Eva Victor

Trauma through others deeds can be devastating but it's how we respond to these challenges that allows us to discover our true selves.

— Rosa-Lee Beckwith-Powell