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Shahida Arabi

800 Quotes
Bestselling Author. Content Writer for Thought Catalog. Quotes about empowerment, healing, victory.
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800 quotes curated by Shahida Arabi:

“I wanna be where the boys are
I wanna fight how the boys fight
I wanna love how the boys love
I wanna be where the boys are”
— The Runaways, I Wanna Be Where The Boys Are
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“Wild in the streets, barely alive
Mama's always telling me, stay inside”
— The Runaways, I Wanna Be Where The Boys Are
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“Malibu shines like summer gold
Wild beaches
In the salty wind
California summers never end”
— The Runaways, California Paradise
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“Let's do this like a prison break,
I wanna see you squeal and shake”
— Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Black Tongue
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“Boy you just a stupid bitch,
and girl you just a no good dick”
— Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Black Tongue
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“I'm rich
Like a hot noise
Rich, rich, rich
I'll take you out boy”
— Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Rich
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“Outside, inside,
This is the moon without a tide,
We'll build a fire in your eyes”
— Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Gold Lion
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“Don't fall asleep with the motor running
She'll make you sweat in the water”
— Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Phenomena
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“The brain gets very confused. And that leads to problems with excessive anger, excessive shutting down, and doing things like taking drugs to make yourself feel better.”
— Bessel Van Der Kolk, Childhood Trauma Leads to Brains Wired for Fear
Tagged: Childhood Trauma, Childhood Abuse, Childhood Emotional Neglect, Effects of Trauma, Your Brain On Trauma, Toxic Stress, Toxic Stress In Childhood, Substance Abuse, Addiction
“It's about becoming safe to feel what you feel. When you're traumatized you're afraid of what you're feeling, because your feeling is always terror, or fear or helplessness. I think these body-based techniques help you to feel what's happening in your body, and to breathe into it and not run away from it. So you learn to befriend your experience.”
— Bessel Van Der Kolk, Childhood Trauma Leads to Brains Wired for Fear
Tagged: Childhood Trauma, Childhood Abuse, Childhood Emotional Neglect, Effects of Trauma, Your Brain On Trauma, Toxic Stress, Toxic Stress In Childhood, yoga, Alternative Healing Methods, Healing Trauma, Diverse Healing Modalities, Mind-Body Healing, Mind-Body Healing for Trauma, Trauma Treatments, PTSD, Treating PTSD, Learned Helplessness