How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.”Ģ5.) “Traumatic stress cuts to the heart of life, interfering with one’s capacity to love, create, and work – incapacity brought on not by poor lifestyle choices, moral weakness, or character flaws but by a complex interplay among biology, genes, and environment.”Ģ6.) “Being traumatized is not just an issue of being stuck in the past it is just as much a problem of not being fully alive in the present.”Ģ7.) “Trauma creates change you don’t choose.

The survivor is left with fundamental problems in basic trust, autonomy, and initiative.”ġ7.) “The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves.”ġ8.) “After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.”ġ9.) “After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.”Ģ0.) “Take avoidance to an extreme, and you have denial: a deep burial of the trauma.” Quotes about traumaĢ1.) “I found that, if given appropriate guidance, human beings can and do shake off the effects of overwhelming events and return to their lives using exactly the same procedures that animals use.”Ģ2.) “The great challenge is finding ways to reset their physiology, so that their survival mechanisms stop working against them.”Ģ3.) “I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.”Ģ4.) “It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. In fact, trauma experts overwhelmingly agree that the best predictor of the impact of any trauma is not the severity of the event, but whether we can seek and take comfort from others.”ġ3.) “When you activate your gut feelings and listen to your heartbreak-when you follow the interoceptive pathways to your innermost recesses-things begin to change.”ġ4.) “I wish my head could forget what my eyes have seen.”ġ5.) “God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you – Both are equally important to Him.”ġ6.) “The personality formed in an environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life.

12.) “Emotional connection is crucial to healing.

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