Healing Trauma Quotes

“In response to threat and injury, animals, including humans, execute biologically based, non-conscious action patterns that prepare them to meet the threat and defend themselves. The very structure of trauma, including activation, dissociation and freezing are based on the evolution of survival behaviors. When threatened or injured, all animals draw from a "library" of possible responses. We orient, dodge, duck, stiffen, brace, retract, fight, flee, freeze, collapse, etc. All of these coordinated responses are somatically based- they are things that the body does to protect and defend itself. It is when these orienting and defending responses are overwhelmed that we see trauma.

The bodies of traumatized people portray "snapshots" of their unsuccessful attempts to defend themselves in the face of threat and injury. Trauma is a highly activated incomplete biological response to threat, frozen in time. For example, when we prepare to fight or to flee, muscles throughout our entire body are tensed in specific patterns of high energy readiness. When we are unable to complete the appropriate actions, we fail to discharge the tremendous energy generated by our survival preparations. This energy becomes fixed in specific patterns of neuromuscular readiness. The person then stays in a state of acute and then chronic arousal and dysfunction in the central nervous system. Traumatized people are not suffering from a disease in the normal sense of the word- they have become stuck in an aroused state. It is difficult if not impossible to function normally under these circumstances.”
― Peter A. Levine

“Then again, he supposed the healing process, in contrast to trauma, was gentle and slow... The soft closing of a door, rather than a slam.- John”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Reborn

“Hold yourself back, or heal yourself back together. You decide.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better.”
― Émile Coué

“Healing trauma involves tears. The tears release our pain. The tears are part of our recovery. My friend, please let your tears flow.”
― Dana Arcuri, Soul Cry: Releasing & Healing the Wounds of Trauma

“Healing is like an onion. As you process through one layer of trauma to release the pain and heal, a new layer will surface. One layer after another layer will bring up new issues to focus on. Pace yourself. Only focus on one layer at a time.”
― Dana Arcuri, Soul Cry: Releasing & Healing the Wounds of Trauma

“When we keep our stories locked up inside of us, darkness wins. We must share what we’ve lived, what we’ve learned, and how we have become stronger through our experiences, in hopes that it helps others find their voice, too.”
― Laura Gagnon, The Book Satan Doesn't Want You To Read

“The first morning passed, and the first afternoon, then the first shift back at work. time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.”
― Stephen King, The Green Mile

“Stop trying to get validation from people who can't or won't acknowledge your feelings. This reflects their inability to empathize. It's a failure on their part and has nothing to do with you.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn

“Your external world mirrors your internal state. Heal the parts of you that need your attention or you will forever live out your pain for all to see.”
― Dana Hall LCPC, MA, TF-CBT

“Rage Expressed Only Behind Closed Doors Is Not An Anger Problem But An Accountability Problem.”
― Brittney Jarrett

“Firing pottery is like lighting a fire in your heart.”
― Yeon Somin, The Healing Season of Pottery

“Rage Expressed Solely Behind Closed Doors Is Not An Anger Problem But An Accountability Problem.”
― Brittney Jarrett

“You are your own Happy Place. Take care of yourself.”
― Brie Ellis, If I Was There

“Tholukuthi with what she now knew of her mother's past, of April 18, 1983, Destiny finally understood, and with a gutting clarity, that all that time, her mother wasn't really ironing clothes or material but was rather ironing some parts of herself.”
― NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

“She needs to know she wasn’t weak. She needs to know she was strong enough to survive and they didn’t because she was strong enough to hold on until help could arrive. It will help her heal.”
― Lacey Dancer, Truth Kills

“One way I have come to understand the definition of healing:

I become less enamored with the story I so badly wanted to write, and I make peace with– fall headlong into—the one I’m actually living.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“Change:
Until we realize we are the problem
Our lives will remain in limbo
Full of anger, fear and darkness,
Until we realize that the situations
And the people we think hurt us
Will remain trapped in Sadness
Change your world, change your life”
― Liam Browne, AYAHUASCA: Healing Your Soul

“We know that now. Vehicles of transportation include, according to the scholar of memory studies Marianne Hirsch, "narratives, actions and symptoms." The stories we tell and don't tell, the actions we take and don't take, the symptoms expressed by a mother holding the trauma tightly to herself, because she refused to burden her children with it.”
― Carmel Mc Mahon, In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History

“We are not always responsible for what has happened to us, but it is always our responsibility to heal from it.”
― Zara Hairston, It Came 2 Pass: Book 1, In the Beginning

“how might I
recognize myself
as medicine
instead of messiness?”
― Joy Donnell, Show Us Your Fire

“Solid sleep was the turning point in my recovery.”
― Nin Mok, Suddenly Silent and Still

“How long does a woman have to wait to tell the truth about her life?
And feel some sense of safety around it?

It can feel frightening to tell your story.”
― MARANDA PLEASANT'S MANTRA WELLNESS MAGAZINE

“To make it worse, a traumatic childhood can leave you questioning yourself as an adult; even when it is clear you’ve been wronged—we still continue to doubt ourselves.

A Cautionary Tale

I hope this story helps you recognize negative patterns, or unbalanced business or personal relationships that are sucking the living daylight outta ya.

This isn’t a story of blame, but one of reclamation.”
― Maranda Pleasant, Origin: Music, Art, Yoga & Consciousness

“It is possible to move an entire mountain by removing small stones.”
― Nin Mok, Suddenly Silent and Still

“Healing is a different journey for each of us, even as we walk the same path together.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“She believes in hope, in forgiveness. She believes in second chances. But if you betray her, lie, disrespect her, if you try to make her question her worth or deflect her feelings, there is no second chance there.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn

“...for as long as I could remember, something hadn't felt quite right in my body, like a drawer that's off kilter inside its desk, refusing to slide smoothly in and out, catching as it opens and closes.”
― Megan Farison, Dissonance

“Healing is not about fixing what is broken, but about removing the barriers to what is already whole.”
― FAISAL ALI SAROHI, THE CAGE OF WHISPERS : THE CAGE THAT HOLDS US AND THE WINGS WE DARE TO GROW

“Tell the story often of how you healed. Your journey will be someone's road map.”
― Peri Q. Arden, Dandelion Ch;ld: An Autistic Life Shattered and Reforged