1. “Instead of saying, ‘I’m damaged, I’m broken, I have trust issues.’ I say ‘I’m healing, I’m rediscovering myself, I’m starting over’.”
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2. “Grief is like the ocean, it comes in waves, ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.”
3. “These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.”
4. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
5. “Nine times out of ten, the story behind the misbehavior won’t make you angry; it will break your heart.”
6. “You are not a victim. No matter what you have been through, you’re still here. You may have been challenged, hurt, betrayed, beaten, and discouraged, but nothing has defeated you. You are still here!”
7. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
8. “After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.”
9. “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”
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10. “The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.”
11. “Bloom where you are planted, even in the darkest of soil. Allow your roots to grow deep, and you’ll emerge stronger and wiser than before.”
12. “The past can tick away inside us for decades like a silent time bomb, until it sets off a cellular message that lets us know the body does not forget the past.”
13. “We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.”
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14. “An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.”
15. “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
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16. “Adulthood is an attempt to become the antithesis of the wounded child within us.”
17. “Abuse is never contained to a present moment, it lingers across a person’s lifetime and has pervasive long-term ramifications.”
18. “Kids with trauma history don’t need more punishment. And quite frankly, they don’t need more stickers.”
19. “Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.”
20. “Abuse is never deserved, it is an exploitation of innocence and physical disadvantage, which is perceived as an opportunity by the abuser.”
21. “When a flower doesn’t bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”
22. “Children don’t get traumatized because they are hurt. They get traumatized because they’re alone with the hurt.”
23. “It is because of hope that you suffer. It is through hope that you’ll change things.”
24. “There is no one way to recover and heal from any trauma. Each survivor chooses their path or stumbles across it.”
25. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
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26. “But really, what else are you going to talk about in line at the liquor store? Childhood trauma seems like the natural choice, since it’s the reason why most of us are in line there to begin with.”
27. “Always remember, if you have been diagnosed with PTSD, it is not a sign of weakness; rather, it is proof of your strength, because you have survived!”
28. “Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.”
29. “Remember, tears are like rivers that start in one place and flow to another – they can help carry you to healing.”
30. “We deny, suppress, repress, and minimize our trauma to preserve our self-concept. By doing so, we set ourselves up for repeating the cycle again.”
31. “Our brains are wired for connection, but trauma rewires them for protection. That’s why healthy relationships are difficult for wounded people.”
32. “Remember that if you really want to motivate yourself, love is more powerful than fear.”
33. “The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. Trauma couldn’t destroy the survivor in you.”
34. “People raised on love see things differently than those raised on survival.”
35. “Behavior is the language of trauma. Children will show you before they tell you that they are in distress.”
36. “Healing happens when you’re triggered and you’re able to move through the pain, the pattern, the story and walk your way to a different ending.”
37. “Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.”
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38. “I don’t carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that’s what you’re hinting at. The story of the bicycles – and there were three of them which were stolen from me – I’ve dealt with it well.”
39. “When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.”
40. “The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.”
41. “One day, you will tell your story of how you overcame what you went through, and it will be someone else’s survival guide.”
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42. “You don’t have to preserve your pain in order to prove that it was real.”
43. “After all, who isn’t a survivor from the wreck of childhood?”
44. “As traumatized children, we always dreamed that someone would come and save us. We never dreamed that it would, in fact, be ourselves as adults.”
45. “I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.”
46. “Survivors of abuse show us the strength of their personal spirit every time they smile.”
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47. “Children will show you before they tell you that they are in distress. Behavior is the language of trauma.”
48. “Wounds won’t heal the way you want them to. They heal the way they need to.”
49. “Trauma creates change you don’t choose. Healing is about creating change you do choose.”
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50. “Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.”
51. “A lot of people who have experienced trauma at the hands of people they’ve trusted take responsibility, and that is what’s toxic.”
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52. “Childhood trauma doesn’t come in one single package.”
53. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
54. “You’re moving through your story, and you aren’t being led by it.”
55. “Students with childhood trauma don’t have faulty brains. They have minds designed in threatening environments to help them survive.”
56. “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
57. “Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.”
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