Childhood Trauma Quotes

Childhood Trauma Quote of the day

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.

Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.

I lie there for a while in the dusk, then make a decision, little knowing how it will affect every facet of my life and fiber of my being for the rest of my life: I say no to shame.

There's no weakness as great as false strength.

Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.

There is no debating that the effects of trauma experienced in childhood may have grave consequences.

Keep your heart wide open and you’ll be received with open hearts — not by everyone, but to be received by one open heart is more than worth the journey.

Traumatic experiences in early childhood may interfere with the child's ability to securely attach.

Childhood introduces children to the wounds of the world.

Perhaps this was the wisdom with which a child in her position survived: by minimizing her wounds—staying as small as possible, as nearly transparent as possible.

A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.

We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children.

Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.

When you can identify the insecurities inside the person that is hurting you then you can begin to heal. It isn't about you. It is about their past.

Trauma can have a masking effect.

Perception and worldview are one's summary of life.

A secure attachment is the ability to bond

I am done looking for love where it doesn’t exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.

I knew that I was the least-loved child because I was a girl and because my mother had died giving birth to me.

No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge.

Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive.

Meadow's Waltz...the meadow had becomeher sanctuary of spiritoffering an escape from a painno child should ever endureforeboding clouds began...