“Maybe there in a set amount of crying your body needs to deal with any trauma. There’s a certain water-level of tears you need to shed until you can find acceptance or move on or whatever. And, if you don’t cry them out, they just catch up with you.” SadnessAcceptanceTearsTraumaMoving OnCrying Book:How Hard Can Love Be? Source: How Hard Can Love Be?
“Mum!' I screamed into the darkness. The word that causes me the most pain. The word that, to everyone else, brings the opposite. Brings them warmth, and love, and light, and understanding, and stability and security.” GriefTrauma Book:How Hard Can Love Be? Source: How Hard Can Love Be?
“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 is all or nothing. A tsunami wave of destruction. A tornado of unimaginable awfulness that whooshes into your life - just for one key moment - and wreaks such havoc that, in just an instant, your whole world will never be the same again.” PainYaTrauma Book:The Manifesto on How to Be Interesting Source: The Manifesto on How to Be Interesting
“LEAVE ME FOR HER! OH I WAS SO FREAKING CRAZY, WASN'T I? FOR ACCURATELY GUESSING WHAT THE HELL WAS GOIUNG ON THE WHOLE DAMN TIME? CRAZY, CRAZY AMELIE, WITH HER TOTALLY NORMAL GRIP ON REALITY!!!” LoveAbuseTraumaBreakupCheatingNarcissistEx Book:The Places I've Cried in Public Source: The Places I've Cried in Public