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“Does a mother ever step back and see that it could be her doing, when she realizes that both her sons turned out to be their abusive father. Is she more upset that she tolerated it from their dad OR mad that her daughters-in-law won't tolerate it from her sons.”

“Our biggest challenge is that we have an overwhelming desire for an extraordinary love story but low capacity to hold space for it in our nervous system.”

Love Marriage Relationship Quotes Dating Trauma Love Story Sensuality Sensual Breakup

Author:Lebo Grand

“Donna grew up with her parents arguing almost continually, and had consequently believed marriage was something that was not only inevitable, but also inevitably miserable.”

Life Family Marriage Trauma

Book:The Midnight Library

Source: The Midnight Library

“Not about anything. Not even when you don’t want me to worry. I know you’re strong and so resilient it’s fucking unbelievable, but you don’t have to always be strong with me. It’s okay to not be okay when you’re with me,” he said, and my breath caught. “It’s my duty as your husband to make sure you feel safe enough to be real. You don’t have to pretend that you’re okay with everything that has happened, Poppy.”

Marriage Husband Trauma Casteel Da Neer The Crown Of Gilded Bones

Author:Casteel da neer

“To acknowledge the existence of the bully and his accompanying risks is not the same as accepting him as a permanent feature of our world. I know that if we accept trauma and fear, it wins. "Bullies don’t just go away. Their legacies don’t just disappear. The bully must be confronted intentionally, his impact named and addressed. Even so, it seems there’s no clear consensus on how to deal with the bully on our blocks. Do we confront him? Match violence with violence? Do we ignore him, or try to kill him with kindness? I don’t think there’s a silver bullet to handling the bully, no one-size-fits-all strategy. But the right strategy has to be rooted in a context bigger than the immediate one, has to be rooted in more than aiming to end the presence of the bully himself. We must focus on the type of world we want to live in and devise a plan for getting there, as opposed to devising a strategy centered on opposition.”

Fear Violence Risk Trauma Activism Resistance Oppression Bullying Solidarity Organizing

Book:On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope

Source: On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope

“The 'experts' will not change the world-- they will simply make a satisfactory living helping people to adjust to it; the world will only change when ordinary people realize what is making them unhappy, and do something about it.”

Depression Anxiety Trauma Activism Sociology Ptsd Psychotherapy

Book:Illusion and Reality: The Meaning of Anxiety

Source: Illusion and Reality: The Meaning of Anxiety

“For there would be no point in painful struggle, in heroic battle against injustice, in the painstaking achievements of culture and learning, in courageous stance against cruelty or adversity, in loving self-sacrifice for others, if in fact the experience gained by just one tortured and despairing individual could simply be 'adjusted' or 'modified' by the appropriate expert.”

Depression Anxiety Adversity Injustice Trauma Activism Experts Psychiatry Psychotherapy

Book:Illusion and Reality: The Meaning of Anxiety

Source: Illusion and Reality: The Meaning of Anxiety

“You cannot let all the world's tragedies into your heart. You'll drown. But the ones you do let in should count. Let them manifest action.”

World Inspirational Action Purpose Tragedy Social Justice Trauma Activism Self Care Lin Manuel Miranda

Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda

“When a wound stays too long on your psyche, it becomes an integral part of your identity. Then you want to get rid of the pain but not the wound. Such a wound allows you to play victim and gain sympathy but deprives you of healthy forms of love. It allows you to outrage and feel powerful but deprives you of real power.”

Pain Spirituality Psychology Feminism Mental Health Trauma Activism

Author:Shunya

“working on behalf of social justice – working on behalf of nonhuman animals – requires immersion in the horrors of oppression. For the women who have submitted essays for this anthology, immersion in the ugliness of injustice, in the hope of change, seems preferable to turning away. . . . ... There is a reward for courage and determination in the face of helplessness and trauma: By walking into extreme misery in the hope of exposing injustice and bringing change, these women have moved from helplessness and despair to empowered activism.”

Women Courage Determination Bravery Injustice Trauma Activism Intersectionality Speciesism Social Justice Warrior

Book:Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Source: Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

“The disappearance of medial prefrontal activation could explain why so many traumatized people lose their sense of purpose and direction. I used to be surprised by how often my patients asked me for advice about the most ordinary things, and then by how rarely they followed it. Now I understood that their relationship with their own inner reality was impaired. How could they make decisions, or put any plan into action, if they couldn't define what they wanted or, to be more precise, what the sensations in their bodies, the basis of all emotions, were trying to tell them?”

Psychology Depression Trauma Apathy Ptsd Neuroscience

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

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

“I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by a belief that Muslims can be strong and rich again if they follow the Islamic law severely and in its entirety. This is a response to the trauma of modern Islam.”

Ifs Form Law Belief Strong Rich Modern Draws Response Islam Trauma Driven Traditional Islamic Distinction Entirety Islamic Law

Author:Daniel Pipes

“In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.”

Ifs Artist Childhood Havens Amount Twenties Trauma Your Children Complexity

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“Dr. Shapiro is a pioneer in the field of helping people overcome trauma and negative past experiences.”

People Helping Past Fields Negative Overcoming Trauma Drs Helping People Pioneers Past Experiences

Author:Daniel Amen

“I began to think that there was a place for 'Footloose' to get retold again, that there was actually a more conducive political climate, an emotional climate to explore a town that has experienced a trauma and a shock, and starts overreacting.”

Thinking Political Emotional Towns Climate Trauma Shock Starting Over Footloose

Author:Craig Brewer

“I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.”

Children Facts Remember Process Memories Healing Willing Trauma Block Healing Process

Book:The Boy on Cinnamon Street

Source: The Boy on Cinnamon Street

“There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.”

Danger Football Trauma Medical Repetitive

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security.”

Father Parent Born Security Revolution China Trauma Taiwan

Author:Ang Lee

“One downside of being an optimist is that optimistic people tend to forget yesterday's trauma in the belief that everything will turn out well. This can keep people in bad relationships because they genuinely believe that things will always improve.”

People Believe Wells Turns Belief Women Forget Trauma Yesterday Optimistic Optimist Bad Relationship

Author:Amy Dickinson

“People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native. There would be far fewer knockouts without the gloves.”

People Happens Would Be Silent Crowds Trauma Native Fewer Gloves Knockouts

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“It is one thing to read the Scriptures and affirm their truth. But until you are in the trenches of trial, until you are faced with life circumstances that test your faith, until you are pressed to the absolute limit of your physical and emotional capacity, until you face the unrelenting stress of ongoing trauma, you never really know how you'll respond to what you may have embraced so easily during a comfortable Bible study.”

Knows May Faces Know How Study One Thing Emotional Circumstances Limits Comfortable Capacity Tests Stress Absolutes Trauma Scripture Trials Ongoing Bible Study Trenches Unrelenting

Author:Kevin Malarkey

“The body stores the trauma of our lives in muscular rigidity, thereby keeping us stuck in the past. When we release the tension in the body and align ourselves with gravity, we take a new stand in life. This allows us to be at ease with ourselves and in harmony in our relationship to others and to our planet.”

Body Past Our Lives Planets Harmony Trauma Stores Stuck Release Ease Tension Gravity Our Relationship Our Planet Rigidity Stuck In The Past

Author:Joseph Heller

“Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma.”

People Brain Saws Structure Trauma Obsession Cures Neuroplasticity

Author:Norman Doidge

“What it boils down to is that each person has his own ways of coping with trauma and grief, with the pain of life, and astrology was one of mine. Don't criticize me, I wanted to say, until you have stood in my place. This helped me. Nobody was hurt by it.”

Way Persons Wanted Pain Hurt Grief Mines Trauma Criticize Astrology Coping

Book:My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan

Source: My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan

“For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and the like, we would be vulnerable to the temptation to brush aside frustrating complexities and relieve intolerable fear (at least for the moment) by settling on one or more scapegoats to crush. To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.”

“Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable - not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent - you learn, in a word, femininity.”

“We have the tendency to judge others by their surface appearance, and to find only their negative qualities. But if we search beneath the surface we discover that a myriad of strains mix together to create a particular person's nature. The faults we perceive are likely to be the effect of circumstances, the psychological response to trauma, abuse, rejection, heartbreak, insecurity, pain, confusion, or disease.”

“For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.”

Historical Trauma Stem Prostitution Colonization

Author:Melissa Farley

“Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into the truth and trauma of the Iraq war in language that is precise, delicate and beautiful, even as it tells of a suicide bomber, a skull shattered by a bullet, a blade in a bloodgroove.”

Writing War Beautiful Desire Language Hurt Compassion Horror Suicide Soldier Iraq Terror Trauma Delicate Bullets Precise Blades Skulls Shattered Iraq War Brian Bombers Turner Suicide Bombers

Author:Andrew Himes

“The trauma of 9/11 stimulated infinite possibilities for worry - some quite plausible, but most inspired by remote what-if fantasies. A society bingeing on fear makes itself vulnerable to far more profound forms of destruction than terror attacks. The "terrorism war", like a nostalgic echo of the cold war, is using these popular fears to advance a different agenda - the re-engineering of American life through permanent mobilization.”

“This is a dark time, filled with suffering and uncertainty. Like living cells in a larger body, it is natural that we feel the trauma of our world. So don’t be afraid of the anguish you feel, or the anger or fear, because these responses arise from the depth of your caring and the truth of your interconnectedness with all beings.”

Source: Pass it On: Five Stories That Can Change the World

“children may need challenges and high-risk conditions in order to develop the self-generated immunity to trauma that characterizes survivors. To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.”

Needs May Children Self Order Challenges Risk Conditions Trauma Being The Best Survivor Tested Therapists Immunity High Risk

Author:Gail Sheehy

“Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.”

Humans Doe Body Loss Majors Impact Trauma Shock Human Psyche

Author:Anne Grant

“The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas.”

Real Remember Challenges Emotional Trauma Wounds Flying Emotional Wounds

Author:Mark Nepo

“no one had experiences any more, only traumas.”

Trauma Exaggeration

Book:A Weekend with Claud

Source: A Weekend with Claud

“Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.”

Light Produce Sorrow Insight Trauma Tranquility Rubbish Stunning

Book:Telegraph Avenue then

Source: Telegraph Avenue then

“pacifists lead a lonely life. Not even gathering together can take the place of that vast, warm sun of approval that is shed on motherhood, on law-abiding, on killing, and on making money. Someday will we come into our own? Well, motherhood may move into the shade. Law-abiding is going through a trauma. But killing and making money are good for a long, long time.”

“Trauma really does confront you with the best and the worst. You see the horrendous things that people do to each other, but you also see resiliency, the power of love, the power of caring, the power of commitment, the power of commitment to oneself, the knowledge that there are things that are larger than our individual survival. And in some ways, I don't think you can appreciate the glory of life unless you also know the dark side of life”

People Thinking Knows Way Doe Individual Sides Dark Worst Survival Glory Commitment Appreciate Oneself Caring Trauma Dark Side Power Of Love Resiliency

Author:Bessel van der Kolk

“It is not possible to be truly balanced in one's views of an abuser and an abused woman. As Dr. Judith Herman explains eloquently in her masterwork Trauma and Recovery, “neutrality” actually serves the interests of the perpetrator much more than those of the victim and so is not neutral. Although an abuser prefers to have you wholeheartedly on his side, he will settle contentedly for your decision to take a middle stance. To him, that means you see the couple's problems as partly her fault and partly his fault, which means it isn't abuse.”

Source: Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

“Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having some sort of emotional trauma, you need to find a person to talk to about it who says, 'This is quite normal; it's fine.'”

Ifs Needs Persons Self Helping Difficult Situation Watches Emotional Fine Normal Trauma Indulgence Self Indulgence Emotional Trauma

Author:Lulu

“These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.”

Should Book Left Forget Childhood Effects Picks Trauma These Days Experts Great Men Childhood Trauma

Author:Peter Straub

“Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.”

States Given Community Perfect Hero Needed Models Claims Dare Trauma Scales Genocide Ashes Reconciliation Risen Rwanda

Author:Wole Soyinka

“At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.”

Years School Five University Trauma Five Years Volunteer Centre Mechanic Bicycle

Author:Philipp Meyer

“If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.”

Ifs Humans Wells Body Trauma Handle Human Body Biotechnology

Author:Alex Berenson

“Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.”

Effects Trauma

Author:Eve Ensler

“People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive cataclysm of the soul.”

People World Soul Suffering Natural Moral Rate Soldier Trauma Disaster Combat Symptoms Ptsd Atrocities Natural Disaster Depraved

Author:David Brooks

“There's love and there's romantic love. The Greeks had different words for different kinds of love. And we just got "love." I don't know what you would call the other kinds - maybe brotherly love, Christian love, the love of Saint Francis, love of everyone and everything. Then there's romantic love, which, by and large, is a pain in the ass, a kind of trauma.”

Knows Kind Different Christian Pain Saint Trauma Ass Greek Different Kinds Romantic Love Kinds Of Love Christian Love Brotherly Brotherly Love Different Kinds Of Love Saint Francis

Author:John Maus

“A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.”

Ifs Real States Process Growth Change Race History Tree Revolution Evidence Trauma Rings Circles Invisible Cards Layers Composing Tissues Carts Swelling New Growth

Book:Flying

Source: Flying

“People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing.”

People Real Hair Comfortable Universal Trauma Features Get Real

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

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