Trauma Healing Quotes

Trauma Healing Quote of the day

Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

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.

Anger is the immune system of the soul.

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

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

An emotionally abusive relationship, in very simplistic terms, is much like standing up in a too hot bath and sinking back in so as not to feel so dizzy.

We don't heal in isolation, but in community.

Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.

Part of the process in healing from trauma, like recovering from addiction, is developing connection and support with others.

Life is a lesson that must never be taken for granted.

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

As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself.

Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.

When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.

Love is divine.Forgiveness is divine. Forgive for the love for yourself and others. Forgiveness is a spiritual healing for the person who forgives.

All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering

Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one’s authentic self and ceases to exist psychologically.

I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the flashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I finally decided to quit trying to hide from truth, I began to heal.

As a deep wound comes to the surface, things can appear worse for a time.

There’s an innocence to her still that amazes me. Sometimes I forget she’s older than me. Then, I remember that she hasn’t gone through what I’ve gone through.

PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.