Selves Quote by Rosa-Lee Beckwith-Powell

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

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

“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

Trauma and pain and suffering can be the very thing that dislodges a person from themselves both in awful ways and larger ways that…

— Scott Derrickson

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

Trauma really does confront you with the best and the worst. You see the horrendous things that people do to each other, but you…

— Bessel van der Kolk

“Just as this scale predicted the future health and happiness of the children in this study, so does knowing and telling our own stories…

— Desmond Tutu

We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but…

— David Trumble

We all have trauma and I know my own trauma, and I survived it.

— Lux Pascal

“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

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

“Unlike simple stress, trauma changes your view of your life and yourself. It shatters your most basic assumptions about yourself and your world —…

— Anonymous