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“Knowing that whatever is happening is finite and will sooner or later come to an end makes most experiences tolerable. The opposite is also true--situations become intolerable if they feel interminable.”

Book:The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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Bessel van der Kolk

Bessel van der Kolk is a renowned psychologist and author specializing in the study and treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). His work has had a profound impact on understanding the psychological effects of trauma and how to effectively treat trauma survivors. more

“Without a story, people aren't going to connect to what you're telling, what you have a pain point about. It's so important for them to know why you've created the company, without that connection to the broader vision that you have - why are you going to do it? What are you going to accomplish?”

Pain Company Vision Connection Story

Author:Payal Kadakia

“There is nothing more uncomfortable than a son being cruel to his mother. It is the epitome of unfairness, and rarely did these sons own a mirror that revealed how irrationally brutal their treatment was.”

Philosophy Pain Family Motherhood Mothers Arguments Unfairness Sons Mistreatment Being A Son

Book:A Happy Ghost

Source: A Happy Ghost

“It was a situation sincere hearts find themselves in of raw, dirty discomfort they cannot share. A day-to- day, on-the-ground, actual trouble of skin and reality—like flat tires, psychotic parents, immobilized brothers—a pain that the restless world would have no patience for and so was kept secret in the shadows of tragedy along with lost people, lost things, and real life.”

Life Pain Friendship Healing Society Loneliness Solitude Empathy Trauma Privacy

Book:A Happy Ghost

Source: A Happy Ghost

“And every time I've set out to meet life, I've met and embraced death. I've collected all my skeletons and bones from each of those moments and have stored them inside the closet that I own. The bones that the death wouldn't touch. And I guess now I have enough of them with me to build a bridge to the paradise in which life lives.”