Quote by Peter A. Levine

Trauma causes us to have an internal experience that is frightening, angry, and shameful. When we feel threatened, as we do when we are…

— Peter A. Levine

“Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.”

— Asa Don Brown

“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

“We must understand how we responded to formative trauma and how that response is perpetuated today. Otherwise, we will remain stuck in self-defeating attitudes…

— Russell Willingham

“Traumatic events challenge an individual's view of the world as a just, safe and predictable place. Traumas that are caused by human behavior. .…

— American Psychological Association

“We have learned through research on trauma survivors that early events that stimulate our fight-or-flight response have long-lasting effects. It usually directs us to…

— Bandy X Lee

“Fear and anxiety affect decision making in the direction of more caution and risk aversion... Traumatized individuals pay more attention to cues of threat…

— Suzette Boon

When we respond to threats immediately and take action right away, it's usually the threats that we're hard-wired to respond to, the kinds of…

— Al Gore

“Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.”

— Stephanie S. Covington

“when people encounter a significant threat, a response called “threat rigidity” sets in. The instinct of threat rigidity is to cease being flexible and…

— Clayton M. Christensen

The shock of somebody saying something to you that you know, but that you haven't acknowledged is a really severe, intense thing.

— Taylor Russell

“certain incidents do more than just touch our raw spots or “hurt our feelings.” They injure us so deeply that they overturn our world.…

— Sue Johnson