Loved ones Quote by Sue Johnson

Trauma survivors have a deficiency in their capacity to regulate emotions - they're too prolonged and too intense and too negative. As a corollary…

— Drew Pinsky

“Maybe it's true that shared trauma brings people closer together-a common hardship, a battle to survive-because when times are quiet people relax and go…

— Laura Wiess

“Survivors often develop an exaggerated need for control in their adult relationships. It’s the only way they feel safe. They also struggle with commitment—saying…

— Laura Davis

Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we…

— Luanne Rice

“Many patients are so terrified of emotional intimacy that they are driven over and over again to provoke crises that allow them to distance…

— Nancy McWilliams

“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

“When we share in each other's grief and pain, we lighten it. Or maybe we just give each other permission to feel it fully…

— Karpov Kinrade

“When you’ve loved somebody for a long time, and then it stops, it’s akin to an amputation in that you go on feeling the…

— Lynne Reid Banks

“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

“Every relationship is assigned to you for your healing. Grief after any relationship gives you the window to heal your wounds and begin anew.…

— Louise L. Hay

“Couples choose each other with an unerring instinct for finding the very person who will exactly match their own level of unconscious anxieties and…

— Gabor Maté

What will support any relationship is clear, complete and conscious conversations when upsets or breakdowns occur.

— Iyanla Vanzant