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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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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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Just imagine what a generation of unbroken women could do.

— Taryn De Vere, Broken Women & Silent Men

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

— Nayyirah Waheed, via Twitter

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

— R. R. Martin, A Game Of Thrones

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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