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“Cinema can transform pain and trauma into something beautiful.”

Pain Beautiful Trauma Cinema Something Beautiful

“That is my job as an intellectual, as an extension of my vocation: to engage in a serious reckoning with the present manifestation of both white supremacy, white refusal to acknowledge culpability, and the attempts of black people to re-describe the harm and trauma we've endured, as well as to say afresh what it is that must be done if we are to be conscientious.”

“When our response to all trauma is to call the police, then that gets us into a cycle of perpetuating trauma. Mental health trauma is different from somebody breaking into a store. Those are not the same things, and our response has to be different.”

Different Police Mental Health Response Trauma

Author:Deray McKesson

“This artistic uprising we had the other night in Washington Square park: there was poetry, there was dance, there was song, there was spoken word; and people left feeling so inspired and so energised. We have to get ourselves out of this syndrome of trauma and being re-traumatised. Art releases this energy. It exposes us to wonder again, and magic again, and ambiguity - all the things we need to really keep going and fighting and resisting in these times.”

People Art Feelings Night Song Fighting Energy Wonder Magic Inspired Trauma Artistic Keep Going Ambiguity Spoken Word

Author:Eve Ensler

“At the Third Wave Foundation, we were asking questions like, "How can we get more voters registered who support our issues?" or "How do we want to give away of money so that it has the greatest impact?" But, the poems were involved in questions of feeling whole, negotiating sexual trauma, and speaking to what has been lost forever. I've always been a person who feels most energized when I am both creating art and working toward social change, but I often have difficulty talking about the two in the same breath.”

Giving Art Feelings Support Forever Difficulty Wave Trauma Social Change

Author:Dawn Lundy Martin

“I often feel trapped. I often feel like I'm trying to escape some trap, be it a way of thinking, a compulsion, or a way of life. I believe this persistent feeling comes from childhood traumas that stripped away my power. The effect, though, the resulting persistent desire to stretch out of confinement even when confinement is inevitable, is a gift.”

Thinking Trying Believe Feelings Desire I Believe Childhood Trauma Inevitable Persistent

Author:Dawn Lundy Martin

“It's the feeling right from the beginning that the government is not on your side, the government thinks you're going to use this opportunity to cheat them, even though you've just been through this huge trauma.”

Thinking Feelings Opportunity Trauma Cheat

Author:Karan Mahajan

“As writers and readers, we're drawn to conflict. It's that ancient theory of plot that's written on the whiteboard during every fiction workshop, characters who want something overcoming obstacles as a way to create narrative momentum and suspense. So there's that, that trauma gives us more plot.”

Giving Character Conflict Overcoming Ancient Obstacles Trauma

Author:Leslie Pietrzyk

“Indifference is the saddest state of being. It's like PTSD - you're not gonna fight, you're not gonna run, you're just frozen there, feeling nothing. It's very easy to have conversations when you're sitting there feeling nothing, to talk about the weather or what you had for lunch, to Instagram what you had for lunch. We're all suffering from trauma. This world is so crazy. How do we feel safe here? I think that's the question everybody's asking, "What do I need to do to feel safe? Like I'm okay?" I don't think there's anything wrong with that.”

Thinking World Feelings Running Suffering Fighting Easy Crazy Okay Trauma Indifference

Author:Ottessa Moshfegh

“If I didn't write in my journal every couple of days, I felt like I was going to burst. Later I learned the research about how important journaling can be to recovering from trauma and grief. That was definitely true for me.”

Writing Important Grief Couple Trauma

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“There's no easy path through grief and trauma. Learning from the experiences of people who'd been through similar losses was helpful.”

People Easy Loss Grief Path Trauma Helpful

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“Writing helps us heal in certain way, but it doesn't make the experience of thinking about writing that occasion any less painful. When you revisit trauma, you don't know what's going to be triggering for you because you don't know how it's connected in your mind. So in the same way when we write something, it doesn't completely resolve the experience for us. It can feel therapeutic, but that's not the reason why I do it. I do it to ask a question, or just to find meaning.”

Thinking Writing Mind Reason Helping Painful Trauma Heal Resolve Find Me

Author:Sarah Gerard

“I liked trumpet because it's related to boxing, but also it has a capacity to create a different type of beauty. There are fight fans, people who want to see that, but what they're really there to see is pretty rough. They're there for blood, which is fine. It's part of it. I enjoyed having the same type of internal, mental, physical fight, but enduring that sort of trauma or pain to send a message of love. I can still have the fight, but what I'm fighting for is more a reality that I want to create.”

People Different Reality Pain Fighting Endure Trauma Boxing Rough

Author:Christian Scott

“You can always accuse my records of being harrowing or dark or bleak. There is processing of trauma on my records and they contain a lot of healing. As a person who has been watching other's rage for years, instead of having my own tantrums, I keep the feelings inside until I can find a way of making them into music. The songs are like healing spells and it really works for me. When I really do a good job on a song, it gets rid of a weight. As far as hope goes, there is hope that you can heal through processing stuff and make it through to the other side. That's all I can hope for.”

Feelings Song Dark Healing Trauma Rage Heal Good Job Bleak There Is Hope

Author:Erika M. Anderson

“I'm not interested in being gratuitously relatable and broadening out what I do in order to reach more people. When I'm going into specific details of the trauma, I think it's the details that connect with people. I'm accidentally relatable - I didn't mean to be, and I didn't think I would be. It feels like what I'm saying on stage is quite shameful and possibly perverted; so for other people to be laughing and go, "Oh, yes, we understand that. We are like that too," is very lovely.”

People Thinking Mean Laughing Trauma Lovely Not Interested Relatable Shameful

Author:Simon Amstell

“In many instances violence - which obviously inflicts tremendous trauma on victims - also inflicts trauma on the perpetrator. Radical evil takes a lot of preparation, not just from an organizational point of view, but from brainwashing, psychological preparation and the legitimization of violence.”

Evil Violence Victim Trauma Point Of View Psychological Radical Preparation Brainwashing Organizational

Author:Payam Akhavan

“We have opted for petty determinisms - childhood trauma, genetic inheritance, social conditioning, etc. - that have made us comparatively passive. We seem to prefer to find excuses - which are really nothing more than the embrace of determinism, a sort of Stockholm syndrome relative to whatever we can claim as limitation. I am fascinated by the more enabling self-understanding. It has helped me to find my way out of the cloying comforts that are offered by prevalent psychological models.”

Childhood Comfort Embrace Excuse Trauma Psychological My Way Limitation Relative Passive Determinism

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“I think that the first responsibility of an artist is to follow truth, and the innate original forces and energies that are within them. At the same time, I also think, collectively, that there has to be a place for artists to reflect and deal with the society they're living in. I think that great art inevitably reflects some of the drama and trauma and conflicts that exist in the outer world.”

Thinking World Art Artist Energy Responsibility Drama Conflict Trauma Great Art

Author:Tony Shafrazi

“When you look at the damage that many of the policies that Donald Trump has proposed can do to our citizens of the US - you can compare him to Major Storms Harvey, Irma, Maria. We're talking about life or death issues and about repealing the Affordable Care Act. There are lives at stake. Something that would affect millions and millions of people. I think it's totally appropriate. Obviously, it's a metaphor. It's not to be taken literally. But I mean that when I talk about the damage and the trauma that has been brought into our lives because of his presidency, that that's very real.”

People Thinking Mean Real Care Taken Policy Metaphor Trauma Storm Compare Affordable Life Or Death

Author:Chirlane McCray

“The writing that most interests me isn't about narcos or sicarios or police or whatever. It's about the victims and the survivors, and about the suffering and trauma that so many in Mexico and Central America endure, and that is all around us whether we notice it or not.”

Writing Suffering Interest Police Victim Endure Trauma Survivor

Author:Francisco Goldman

“The core cuisine of Southern food is established in the plantation South, within the world of slavery. To understand the plantation table, we must understand the relationship of enslaved people to Africa, to historical trauma, and their central role in food production. Their voice is the most poignant, expressive voice in Southern cuisine.”

People World Slavery Historical Trauma Southern Poignant

Author:Marcie Cohen Ferris

“Often people who live through the trauma are nostalgic when it's over. When I went back to Bosnia 20 years after the brutal civil war, even people who had been badly wounded told me they missed those times. They were missing their more courageous selves.”

People War Missing Trauma Civil War Courageous Brutal Nostalgic

Author:Sebastian Junger

“All that rejection from Republicans has a bit of a racist element. It was very necessary to have a black president, and it's been a great thing. It will help, in the end, to ease the trauma of slavery and civil war. The war against slavery cost almost 800,000 American lives - that's how strongly they felt about it. And it's not going to go away in a century.”

War Helping Black President Republican Slavery Trauma Great Things Civil War Rejection Racist Going Away

Author:Martin Amis

“Even in New York City, we've seen some major improvements from the way the system was 20 years ago. There's still a lot to do - we know that training workers and parents, reducing caseload size, developing therapeutic foster care, strengthening kinship care, and putting more emphasis into preventive care are all solutions. Unfortunately, if a child is in a situation where removal from the home becomes neccessary, there's already been trauma. Putting a traumatized child into a "system," not a home, with strangers is creating a perfect storm for further trauma.”

Children Home Care Parent Perfect Situation Solutions Training Stranger Trauma Storm Improvement Strengthening Removal Kinship Foster Care

Author:Rachel Lloyd

“The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.”

Thinking Littles Mark Trauma Settling Shock Changing Your Life Little Time Indelible

Author:Alex Lifeson

“The Republicans ought to be nowhere near trying to help Obama save his bacon. But they don't think that's what they're doing, I'm convinced. You talk about trauma and the need for therapy, I really think that the Republicans have been genuinely psychologically traumatized by decades of media criticism.”

Thinking Needs Trying Has Beens Helping Media Ought Republican Criticism Trauma Convinced Decades Therapy

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.”

Thinking Father Focus Trauma

Author:Lindsay Lohan

“Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.”

Art Happens Three Healing Journey Trauma Healed Therapeutic Cathartic

Author:Alanis Morissette

“I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.”

Ifs Feels Writing Able Enjoy Drama Crisis Trauma Our Family Demon Leaving Me Family Life About Family Lurking Stepping Away

Author:Jodi Picoult

“I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.”

Ifs Book Happened Childhood Trauma Disappointed

Author:Jodi Picoult

“'Looper' is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It's about finding love in the third act of your life. It's about overcoming trauma and the idea of true sacrifice.”

Years Ideas Self Sacrifice Findings Thirds Overcoming Trauma Coffee Cups Finding Love Coffee Cup Old Self

Author:Jason Reitman

“No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.”

Success Purpose Suffering Causes Failure Trauma Suits Shock Congratulations Make Out Success Or Failure

Author:Alfred Adler

“Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.”

Compassion Offers Universal Depth Trauma Vulnerability

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow.”

Knows Two Form Grows Numbers Brain Millions Trauma Expected Injury Strokes Brain Injury

Author:Allyson Schwartz

“Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.”

Way Results Emotion Childhood Raised Trauma Hardship Unhealthy Thoughts And Emotions

Author:Steven Seagal

“I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.”

Needs Enough Bigs Lasts Creative Sadness Emotional Trauma Be Creative Reservoirs Emotional Trauma

Author:Sting

“The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.”

Drama Mirrors Trauma Repeats

Author:Taylor Swift

“If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.”

Ifs Humans Pain Order Chance Human Beings Loss Share Losing Connections Trauma Cards Chances Are Devastation Greatest Fear Love Respect Losing Love

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.”

Body Hands Able Moving Found Stuff Healing Yoga Trauma Layers Therapists Massage Better Now Massage Therapists

Author:Ricky Williams

“If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.”

Ifs Parent Type Available Trauma Ignored

Author:Tucker Max

“[The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing next to the orderly, Georgie, both of us on drugs, looking down at a patient with a knife sticking up out of his face. 'What seems to be the trouble?' he asked.”

Seems Faces Next Rooms Situation Saws Trouble Drug Standing Doctors Patient Trauma Knives Orderly Clerks Looking Down

Book:Jesus' Son: Stories

Source: Jesus' Son: Stories

“The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.”

World Facts Shows Reality Suffering Pleasure Ego Gains Refuse Trauma Occasions Affected Compelled Provocation Gallows Gallows Humor

Author:Sigmund Freud

“...When I look back on my life's greatest traumas...I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at the time, there was an end to them.”

Looks Ends Matter Felt Common Trauma Shattering

Author:Anna Maxted

“This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down. We all need such places of ritual safekeeping. And I do believe that if your culture or tradition doesn't have the specific ritual you are craving, then you are absolutely permitted to make up a ceremony of your own devising, fixing your own broken-down emotional systems with all the do-it-yourself resourcefulness of a generous plumber/poet.”

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets felt psychologically necessary and rewarding, where respect was dependent on baroque displays. Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love.”

Source: Status Anxiety

“We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.”

“The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.”

Knows Want Looks Joy Girl Three Hours Behinds Half Watches Forever Childhood Sweet Meetings Trauma Bars Jail Childhood Trauma

Book:Choke: A Novel

Source: Choke: A Novel

“One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.”

Persons Loss Trauma Innocence Disillusionment Loss Of Innocence

Book:Nineteen Minutes: A novel

Source: Nineteen Minutes: A novel

“Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails. I was heads. Had it gone my way, there might not be a story at all. Just a chapter, or a sentence in a book whose greater theme had yet to be determined. Maybe this chapter would've had the faintest whisper of love about it. But maybe not. Sometimes, a girl needs to lose.”

Way Needs Book Sometimes Stories Might Girl Loses Chance Gone Greater Mines Trauma Determined Sentences Love Story My Way Theme Gravity Chapters Tails Coins Toss

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals--that they can't help but reenact the dash they once made from one land to another, from one faith to another, from one brown mother country into the pale, freckled arms of an imperial sovereign.”

Made Country Helping Mother Land Arms Tragedy Trauma Repeats Brown Pale Sovereign Mother Country

Book:White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

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