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Shahida Arabi

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

“We just did a study on yoga for people with PTSD. We found that yoga was more effective than any medicine that people have studied up to now. That doesn't mean that yoga cures it, but yoga makes a substantial difference in the right direction.”
— 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
“But if you're in an orphanage for example, and you're not touched or seen, whole parts of your brain barely develop; and so you become an adult who is out of it, who cannot connect with other people, who cannot feel a sense of self, a sense of pleasure. If you run into nothing but danger and fear, your brain gets stuck on just protecting itself from danger and fear.”
— 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
“The human brain is a social organ that is shaped by experience, and that is shaped in order to respond to the experience that you’re having. So particularly earlier in life, if you’re in a constant state of terror; your brain is shaped to be on alert for danger, and to try to make those terrible feelings go away.”
— 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
“If you’re an adult and life’s been good to you, and then something bad happens, that sort of injures a little piece of the whole structure. But toxic stress in childhood from abandonment or chronic violence has pervasive effects on the capacity to pay attention, to learn, to see where other people are coming from, and it really creates havoc with the whole social environment.”
— 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
“Understandably, the fear, distress, confusion, inner turmoil, and chaos that victims experience leave them “walking on eggshells” in order to avoid further conflict with the narcissist. The effect on the victim over time can be very crippling indeed. I liken narcissistic abuse to a parasitic worm that manages to penetrate under the skin, where it is out of the sight of witnessing eyes, but is free to injure or consume its host slowly, leaving trauma or disease in its wake.”
— Christine Louis de Canonville, Narcissistic Victim Syndrome: What The Heck Is That?
Tagged: Narcissistic Abuse, Narcissism, Headline Examples
“The most powerful women are always the ones you don’t see coming.”
— Shahida Arabi, The Most Powerful Women Are Always The Ones You Don’t See Coming
Tagged: Shahida New Quote Macros
“The thing about women who overthink, overcompensate, overexert their efforts is that they all eventually have an awakening. They all eventually realize what they deserve.”
— Shahida Arabi, This Is When She’ll Leave You – And Never Look Back
Tagged: Shahida New Quote Macros
“She’ll leave when she realizes the life that awaits her is more promising than any life you could’ve given her. That any addiction she had to you isn’t worth another hit that might kill her.”
— Shahida Arabi, This Is When She’ll Leave You – And Never Look Back
Tagged: Abusive Relationships, Leaving A Toxic Relationship, Shahida New Quote Macros
“Sometimes, we’re so consumed with how others perceive us that we forget to honor how we feel about them.”
— Shahida Arabi, 7 Things People Don’t Realize You’re Doing Because You’re The Child Of A Narcissistic Parent
Tagged: Boundary Setting, Authenticity, People-pleasing, Authentic Self, Shahida New Quote Macros
“A victim reports that on the front end of a relationship someone made them feel special. They made them feel desired, of value...only after years of exploitation and abuse did they come to realize they represented merely a trophy of sorts. And, unfortunately, they also learned the hard way how easily some trophies can be discarded once they’ve outlived their usefulness.”
— Dr. George Simon, Charming Narcissists Manipulate Well
Tagged: Narcissism, Narcissistic Abuse, Headline Examples