Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Edward Grinnan

Quote by Edward Grinnan

Work

A Journey of Faith: A Mother's Alzheimer's, A Son's Love, and His Search for Answers

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Edward Grinnan

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Edward Grinnan. more

You May Also Like

“But I'd begun, slowly, to understand that complex post-traumatic stress disorder, or cPTSD, was different. It was particularly difficult to treat, because - like a flat landscape - it didn't offer a significant landmark, an event, that you could focus on and work with. Complex post-traumatic stress, according to the psychiatrist Judith Lewis Herman, is the result of 'prolonged, repeated trauma,' rather than individual traumatic events. It's what happens when you're born into a world, shaped by a world, where there's no safety, ever. When the people who should take care of you are, instead, scary and unreliable, and when you live years and years without the belief that escape is possible. When you come from a world like this, when all your muscles are trained to tension and suspicion, normal life feels unbearable. It doesn't make sense, getting up, going to class, eating lunch, returning home, sleeping. You don't trust it. It doesn't feel real. And unreality can hurt more than pain.”

HealingComplex PtsdCptsdLandscapes
Book:A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
Create image

“On the collective level, as more people do their own healing work, expand their capacity for connection, and trade individualism for interdependence, we will have a much greater capacity to change the oppressive systems that keep all of us, and especially the most marginalized, from being free.”

HealingChronic IllnessSystemic
Book:Rebel Healing: Transforming Ourselves and the Systems That Make Us Sick
Create image

“As I memorized the name of every bone and tendon and blood vessel they seemed like the names of animals or trees. There is great power in know the name of something. pg. 39”

HealingMedicineMemoirTraditional HealingNavajo Teachings
Book:The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
Create image

“As a minority physician, you will be constantly challenged, " He said. "your decisions will be questioned, your authority doubted. To be successful, you will have to have higher standards than everyone else. You will have to study harder, train longer, and know your materials backward and forward. In the operating room, you will need to know the anatomy, how to do the operation, and what alternative operations might also work. You will have to be prepared to handle any emergency that might arise.” Pg. 50”

HealingMedicineMemoirTraditional HealingNavajo Teachings
Book:The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
Create image