Trauma Quotes
Without confidence we feel insecure. We replay the doubting voices of our parents on a loop in our own minds.
The wind considers how trauma is - in essence - just a memory that violates previous memories too barbarically, an event that devastatingly conflicts against everything else one knows.
Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory...
Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.
My traumatic experience was life changing
Survivors of trauma may have difficulty initiating relationships ...
Perception and worldview are one's summary of life.
Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity ad well.
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.
Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited by their immaturity and the brokenness of their external world.
That's the thing about rocks--they don't break easily. When I held them, I wanted to be like them-strong and steady, weathered but not broken.
I had been fortified by trauma, the way a bone, once broken, grows back stronger than it had been.
Living through difficult life circumstances in not an excuse for passing trauma onto someone else.
You are not responsible for anything that happens to you as a child but you are 100% responsible for your own healing.
I admire successful men and women who endured and overcome unusual circumstances to fulfill their dreams.
And I guess at the end of the day, you’re just amazed that I can still stand, and I’m just amazed that I can stand still.
People expected certain things of me: assistance, silence, comfort. They had no idea who I was.
There's a weight in the room now, a remembrance of childhood. It sinks like a stone, or a heart, or my weight on a good day.
Maybe tranquility is the dirt under my nails. I know it's there but I never feel like digging it out.
There are edges around the black and every now and then a flash of color streaks out of the gray. But I can never really grasp any of the slivers of memories that emerge.
Life is hope.Hope is faith.Faith is believe.Believe is possibilities.Possibility is miraculous.Miraculous is divine.Divine is supernatural.Supernatural is spiritual.
When trauma involves intentional harm, such as in a crime or abuse, trust can totally collapse.
Love is divine.Forgiveness is divine. Forgive for the love for yourself and others. Forgiveness is a spiritual healing for the person who forgives.
I have only known two men's souls in my life, one the devil, the other the the bird's wings which picked me up and carried me back to the freedom of being.
Time heals nothing. It only brings other issues and tissues, and takes what is incurable or unacceptable out of the center of our attention.
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.
The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems.Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.
Sometimes it's hard not to let other people's misery seep into your own bones.
It is dangerous to use our own ability to access non-traumatic memories as a standard against which we judge a trauma victim’s response.
It would cut into him at unpredictable moments, like a gutting knife made of colored light.
The air is cold and dusk has descended. In the distance lightning flickers and a far away rumble of thunder awakens my thoughts and makes me remember.
We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.
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.
You can travel the world but If you cannot let go of the past, you will never move on.
i see the sky as beautiful, Regardless of its shine Because I wake each day grateful, That I get another chance to be alive.
When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.
Radically accept, release and allow suffering to move through you like a passing storm.
Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.