Strength Quote by Tana French

“Trauma is any terrifying event that instantly changes the world as we know it, leaving us helpless and emotionally overwhelmed.”

— Sue Johnson

“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

“Trauma. It doesn't eke itself out over time. It doesn't split itself manageably into bite-sized chunks and distribute itself equally throughout your life. Trauma…

— Holly Bourne

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

— Stephanie S. Covington

“Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very…

— Bora Chung

“Trauma is a unique phenomenon all on its own, as if it is an entity in and of itself.”

— Paul Levy

“While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

“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

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

“This book is a memoir - not of specific life events, but of the processes of dissociation, and of re-enlivening emotions that are shameful…

— Jessica Stern

“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

“We are traumatized people. And nothing else has trauma’s power to deform the mind and heart.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer