Trauma Healing Quotes

“Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.”
― Peter A. Levine

“If your body is screaming in pain, whether the pain is muscular contractions, anxiety, depression, asthma or arthritis, a first step in releasing the pain may be making the connection between your body pain and the cause. “Beliefs are physical. A thought held long enough and repeated enough becomes a belief. The belief then becomes biology.”
― Marilyn Van M. Derbur, Miss America By Day: Lessons Learned From Ultimate Betrayals And Unconditional Love

“Through mirror neurons and resonance circuitry, we are taking in each other's bodily state, feelings and intention in each emerging moment (Iacoboni, 2009).

This gives us an approximate empathic sense of what is happening in the other person, but it is important to be aware that the information is also being filtered through our implicit lens.

This filtering colors our perceptions and pretty much guarantees there will be ruptures that invite repairs, as our offers of empathy will sometimes not reflect what the other person is experiencing.”
― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

“But you can’t escape from shadows or pain. You only find new ones. It’s better, I think, not to try to escape them at all but to accept that they will be there, and to remember that good things happen, too, even if you can’t always see them.”
― Christina Henry, Looking Glass

“Interpersonal neurobiology asks us to place no boundaries on where and how it might illuminate our world.

It is possible that every moment has the potential to be therapeutic in some way.”
― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

“My queerness wasn’t the problem. Their fear was.”
― Brandon Cloud, Small Town Gayby: A Fictional Memoir of Conversion, Cancer, and Coming Out Loud

“Every apology I never received became part of my spine.”
― Brandon Cloud, Small Town Gayby: A Fictional Memoir of Conversion, Cancer, and Coming Out Loud

“You don’t forget the ones who die on your watch. You carry them in your scrubs.”
― Brandon Cloud, Sunset on Cloud Nine

“Love, like spice, was best added slowly—too much too fast ruined the dish.”
― Brandon Cloud, Sute & Solitude

“Their version of patriotism never included people like me.”
― Brandon Cloud, Don't Ask, Don't Die.

“Closets don’t just hide people. They train them.”
― Brandon Cloud, The Closet Strategist

“I used to count calories. Now I count triggers.”
― Brandon Cloud, Small Town Gayby: Where The Scar Remains

“Some call it burnout. I called it drowning with a smile.”
― Brandon Cloud, Sunset on Cloud Nine

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― Brandon Cloud, A Queer Kind of Hallelujah

“Faith didn’t fail me. People using it did.”
― Brandon Cloud, A Queer Kind of Hallelujah

“I stopped praying for healing and started building it.”
― Brandon Cloud, A Queer Kind of Hallelujah

“They exorcised my sparkle. I glittered anyway.”
― Brandon Cloud, A Queer Kind of Hallelujah

“Conversion therapy didn’t cure me. It confirmed me.”
― Brandon Cloud, Small Town Gayby: A Fictional Memoir of Conversion, Cancer, and Coming Out Loud

“I passed as straight until I passed out.”
― Brandon Cloud, Small Town Gayby: A Fictional Memoir of Conversion, Cancer, and Coming Out Loud

“In her kitchen, I found my cravings weren’t culinary.”
― Brandon Cloud, Flour & Fury: A Sweet Rivalry

“I found more grace in drag queens than deacons.”
― Brandon Cloud, A Queer Kind of Hallelujah

“Tears weren’t weakness—they were proof I tried.”
― Brandon Cloud, Beneath the Veil of Tears

“Coming out felt like a hostile takeover.”
― Brandon Cloud, The Closet Strategist

“Choosing yourself — when you've spent a lifetime choosing others — is the hardest decision there is.”
― Zoé Mira, I Exist. I Am Enough.: A Memoir of Love, War, and Becoming Wild Again

“Trauma is an active, ongoing injury—one that continues disrupting our regular capacity even after a perceived danger has passed because the threat remains emotionally alive.”
― Antonieta Contreras, How Deep Is the Wound?: A Guide to Investigating, Understanding, and Resolving Your Emotional Pain

“It’s going to be hard, I’ll tell you that from the start. However hard you think it’s going to be, I promise you it’ll be worse. And you’re going to think you have to do it alone – but you don’t, and you can’t. People will want to help you. People will want to be there when you’re ready for them. You might not find them right away, but you’ll find them.

Wherever you are on that path, wherever you’re headed, just remember that you won’t be walking it forever. And those first steps – first loves, first heartaches, first mistakes, whatever – they don’t have to define all the years of your life. A day will come when you can let it go. You might not think so now, but that day will come. Doesn’t mean you don’t still carry a part of it with you, but you’re going to wake up one day and realize it’s lighter. That day will come, whatever you’re carrying.”
― Mia_ugly, Slow Show

“I become whole. A mosaic, not of muses, but belonging to me.”
― Rita Kay, Shhh… Don’t Say It: A Memoir in Fragments on Trauma, Abuse, CPTSD, and Healing

“Let the villains rot.
Let the system choke.
Let ghosts hang their heads from this place they said I would never reach.

This crown wasn’t given.
It was seized through fire, flashbacks, and sharpened teeth that break handcuffs.

The crown fits my scars now.”
― Rita Kay, Her Fire Touched the Sky: Poems of Trauma, Survival, Healing, and the Quiet Rebuilding of a Soul

“Breathe. Keep on. We’ve got galaxies to set alight.”
― Rita Kay, Her Fire Touched the Sky: Poems of Trauma, Survival, Healing, and the Quiet Rebuilding of a Soul

“I don't write to impress. I write to live. To breathe through the ache, to process the unbearable, to carve light into memory. My pen is my spine, my page the heartbeat. I write to exist wholly; raw, real, and still rising.”
― Vennie Kocsis