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Who would you be without trauma?

How much of you was created out of survival?

— Sex Therapist, via twitter.com

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If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to others then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself.

— Nikita Gill, via Tumblr

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Be a scar. Do not be ashamed of living through something.

— Nayyirah Waheed, via Twitter

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Just imagine what a generation of unbroken women could do.

— Taryn De Vere, Broken Women & Silent Men

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Traumatic experiences are broken bones of the soul. If you engage in the process of recovery, you get stronger. If you don’t, the bones remain porous, with permanent holes inside, and you are considerably weaker.

— Ellen McGrath, Recovering from Trauma

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Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

— Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

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Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

— R. R. Martin, A Game Of Thrones

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Memories demand attention, because memories have teeth.

— Viola Davis, Viola Revealed a Devastating Truth About Childhood Sexual Assault That Everyone Should Hear

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Perhaps meeting one predator in one lifetime is traumatizing enough. However, when there are a chain of traumas that shape your early development, this complex trauma is enough to send anyone over the edge.

— Shahida Arabi, 13 Reasons Why: The Real Reasons Hannah Baker Committed Suicide Are Much More Complex Than You Think

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When Warsan Shire writes, she does precisely that; she opens a wound and as an emotional cartographer, maps the terrain of her trauma and sutures the wound through her poetry. Fearless and vulnerable, she pulls back layers to expose not only the pain, but the healing as well.

— Kameelah Janan Rasheed, To Be Vulnerable and Fearless: An Interview with Writer Warsan Shire

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becoming dragonfish to survive
the horrors we are living
with tortured lungs
adapting to breathe blood.

— Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

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Dissociation is the essence of trauma. The overwhelming experience is split off and fragmented, so that the emotions, sounds, images, thoughts, and physical sensations related to the trauma take on a life of their own.

— Bessel Van Der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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Traumatized people are afraid of conflict. They fear losing control and ending up on the losing side once again.

— Bessel Van Der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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Our rational, cognitive brain is actually the youngest part of the brain and occupies only about 30 percent of the area inside our skull.

— Bessel Van Der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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I appreciate the concern, but when your father kills 25 women before you're a teenager, painful memories don't need a trigger. They just are.

— Ashley Seaver (Rachel Nichols), Criminal Minds, Season 6: What Happens at Home

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I know how it feels to be in a fistfight with yourself, with your memories, with your trauma, with your pain.

— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr

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How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep… that have taken hold.

— Frodo, Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King

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It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

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Sure, the internet is a place that frequently makes a mockery of serious things. But some things, like real, life-altering trauma, should be left the hell alone.

— Hafeezah Nazim, Leave “This Is America” Alone

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There are times we try to forgive ourselves for something we shouldn’t even have to forgive ourselves for. The traumas you experienced were not your fault. As a survivor, you didn't deserve to be abused, violated, assaulted or taken advantage of.

— Shahida Arabi, How To Forgive Yourself For Something You Shouldn’t Have To Forgive Yourself For: Healing Self-Blame After Abuse And Assault

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And everybody tells you, ‘Oh, whatever happens to you, it will make you stronger, fuck them…It’s so mean, that is the stupidest thing. It doesn’t make you better at all. It could ruin you.

— Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart Gets Candid About Her Time in Prison

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Mindfulness has been shown to have a positive effect on numerous psychiatric, psychosomatic, and stress-related symptoms, including depression and chronic pain.

— Bessel Van Der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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Being traumatized means continuing to organize your life as if the trauma were still going on—unchanged and immutable—as every new encounter or event is contaminated by the past.

— Bessel Van Der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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It is enormously difficult to organize one’s traumatic experiences into a coherent account—a narrative with a beginning, a middle, and an end.

— Bessel Van Der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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Look at her. This is a lonely woman looking for companionship....Spinster...Maybe a virgin....Maybe she got hurt a long time ago. She was a schoolgirl. There was a boy. It didn't work out. Now she needs a little tenderness. She needs a little understanding. She needs a little Kramer.

— Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards), Seinfeld, Season 3: The Library

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More people experience post traumatic growth than post traumatic stress. After trauma we grow.

— Sheryl Sandberg, via twitter.com

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When you love a girl who’s gone through trauma, you’re saying that you see the worth in helping her bandage the wounds. You’re saying that you see the worth someone else tried to bury. — Kendra Syrdal

When you love a girl who’s gone through trauma, you’re saying that you see the worth in helping her bandage the wounds. You’re saying that you see the worth someone else tried to bury.

— Kendra Syrdal, What It Means To Love A Girl Who Has Lived Through Trauma

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Trauma is not mutually exclusive. That because one generation faced incredible trauma, it does not mean that subsequent generations’ trauma doesn’t matter. The definition of trauma does not drift to fit the most extreme version of that word.

— Daniel Peña, Can Twitter Make Trauma Generic? And If So, What Should We Do About It?

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We do not get to hold people hostage with our pain.

— mahr-thuh, via twitter.com

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You're wrong when you say that other people have recovered from the trauma, they've simply hidden it away in a place they never go to.

— Paulo Coelho, Aleph

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Most great instigators of social change have intimate personal knowledge of trauma. Oprah Winfrey comes to mind, as do Maya Angelou, Nelson Mandela, and Elie Wiesel. Read the life history of any visionary, and you will find insights and passions that came from having dealt with devastation.

— Bessel Van Der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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The most primitive part, the part that is already online when we are born, is the ancient animal brain, often called the reptilian brain.

— Bessel Van Der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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The stress hormones of traumatized people, in contrast, take much longer to return to baseline and spike quickly and disproportionately in response to mildly stressful stimuli.

— Bessel Van Der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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Bullying leaves lasting scars.

— Dr. Spencer Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler), Criminal Minds, Season 12: The Anti-Terror Squad

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Why do we assume that pain yields wisdom or moral clarity?

— Edna Friedberg, Elie Wiesel and the Agony of Bearing Witness

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There’s lots of online information about sexual violence, but there’s not a lot of information about how you as an individual can start dealing with the trauma.

— Tarana Burke, The #MeToo Hashtag Is Powerful—but What Comes After Is More Important

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Are men victims of sexual abuse? Absolutely. Should they be more encouraged to speak out and be made to feel safe, respected, and listened to? Of course. But women are finally being able to air their trauma — and it can't, can't, can't be treated as competition.

— Lea Rose Emery, The Problem With Men Responding "Not All Men" To The "Me Too" Campaign

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Overstating harm comes at the expense of survivors.

— Laci Green, via twitter.com

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I didn’t tell anyone I tried to kill myself. Something else I buried deep.

— Junot Dìaz, The Legacy of Childhood Trauma

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While I found my passion for wine again, it has never felt quite the same. It took years of therapy to come to the realization that the only person responsible for sexual violence is the predator—period.

— Jacy Topps, How I Learned to Love Wine Again After Being Sexually Assaulted

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When you’re dealing with an empathy-deficient individual with a high sense of entitlement and a sadistic need to bring others down, conversations become crazymaking minefields meant to psychologically terrorize and divert you.

— Shahida Arabi, 12 Things Narcissists Say And What They REALLY Mean

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If I have learned anything it is that you cannot run away from who you are or from how you’ve been shaped by your experiences. Instead, you must integrate your past and present.

— Monica Lewinsky, Monica Lewinsky: Emerging from “the House of Gaslight” in the Age of #MeToo

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When we are the children of narcissistic parents, emotionally abusive people fit the profile of what our subconscious has been primed to seek. Yet they often come disguised as our saviors.

— Shahida Arabi, The Invisible War Zone: 5 Ways Children Of Narcissistic Parents Self-Destruct In Adulthood

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