We don't heal in isolation, but in community.
S. Kelley HarrellTag: isolation community healing support shamanism trauma ptsd
I’ve seen daggers pierce the chest,
Children dying in the road,
Crawling things hooked and baited,
Rapists bound and then castrated,
Villains singed in public square.
Yet none these sights did make me cringe
Like when my Love cut all her hair.
Tag: humor love girls women poem fashion violence hair haircut trauma shock cutting-hair hair-drama funny-quotes traumatic-experiences haircuts traumatic
Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterwards.
Jessica SternHe asks, in a softer voice, "Does your arm still hurt?"
You touch it with your hand. The big ache is gone, leaving only the little, underneath ache that will gather and swell against the bone. The blood leaks out of the vein where he grabbed you. But you say, "It's better now.
There are no injuries that run so deep that one can't add insult to them and make them feel even worse.
Matthew S. WilliamsTag: pain insult trauma injuries
I am both numb and oversensitive, overwhelmed by the need, the raw and desperate need of the girls I am listening to and trying to help. I'm overdosing on the trauma of others, while still barely healing from my own.
I cry for hour at home and have fitful nights of little sleep. My nightmares resurface as my own pain is repeated to me, magnified a thousand times. It feels insurmountable. How can you save everyone? How can you rescue them? How do you get over your pain? How do you ever feel normal?
Tag: pain girls need healing nightmares help cry normal numb trauma rescue oversensitive
The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.
Bruce D. PerryTag: love children relationships therapy trauma
So I let my shame own me, kill me, wilt me away into a thousand dead flakes, knowing if I kept it all in, she would never have to learn the dirtiness that was forever inside me--the bad, the ugly, the twisted. She could go on living her life happy, just like she deserved.
Jessica SorensenTag: silence shame guilt rape dirty raped trauma emotional-pain
I won't let that night ruin you forever." But it did, it broke me into a million pieces and blew them away in the wind, like crumbled leaves.
Jessica SorensenTag: night sad ruin trauma broken ella broke micha ella-and-micha crumbled
The power we discover inside ourselves as we survive a life-threatening experience can be utilized equally well outside of crisis, too. I am, in every moment, capable of mustering the strength to survive again—or of tapping that strength in other good, productive, healthy ways.
Michele RosenthalTag: inspirational self-empowerment crisis self-awareness self-confidence posttraumatic-stress-disorder trauma survivor ptsd traumatic-experiences traumatic-epiphonies
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