Heal From Trauma Quotes

#1. Who have been traumatized, this can be a monumental leap of faith, but we can recover from trauma; indeed, my experience assisting others to heal from trauma has shown me this recovery is innate.

Peter A. Levine

#2. I like to engage the public because when I was in high school, I had all these questions about anti-matter, higher dimensions and time travel. Every time I went to the library, every time I asked people these questions, I would get some strange looks. Nobody could answer any of these questions.

Michio Kaku

#3. Childhood friends are continuity, uninterrupted connections between selves, and you hold on them. You hold on them and you love them, but sometimes they're not quite comfortable.

Lynn Messina

#4. Time, the thing we can't beat back ... Yet, time is also what it takes to heal, what it takes for certain memory cells to die.
Maybe time doesn't heal. Maybe it doesn't even pass. We pass through time, and come out stunned, so rage, and memory, are blurred.

Kiana Davenport

#5. When you can identify the insecurities inside the person that is hurting you then you can begin to heal. It isn't about you. It is about their past.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. Try as he might, Gatsby remains outside the inner sanctum and nothing he can do will allow him full access. He will never be accepted by anyone but the nouveaux riches.

Kate Maurer

#7. I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

Bell Hooks

#8. I remember thinking of the passage in The Sword in the Stone where a falconer took a goshawk back onto his own fist, 'reassuming him like a lame man putting on his accustomed wooden leg, after it had been lost'.

Helen Macdonald

#9. An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.

Alice Miller

#10. But these - they weren't case updates so much as letters, the kind you wrote to someone you knew so well you could imagine them beside you, even when they were across an ocean, living out another life.

Brittany Cavallaro

#11. Many deeply hidden memories have come flooding back. The important message here though is that it is possible to heal and survive. Everyone has survived their own kind of emotional or mental trauma. We all have our inner fears and misreplaced feelings of guilt.

Lynette Gould

#12. Some memories never heal. Rather than fading with the passage of time, those memories become the only things that are left behind when all else is abraded. The world darkens, like electric bulbs going out one by one. I am aware that I am not a safe person.

Han Kang

#13. She knew she couldn't escape unscathed, and the trauma would take her a long time to get past. And she might never fully heal mentally.
There was no denying the fact, though, that everything had changed for her. To know what to expect wasn't the same as actually living it.

Cheyenne McCray

#14. Our Ancestors knew that healing comes in cycles and circles.

One generation carries the pain so that the next can live and heal.

One cannot live without the other, each is the other's hope, meaning & strength.

Gemma B. Benton

#15. We don't heal in isolation, but in community.

S. Kelley Harrell

#16. I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

Mark Cuban

#17. Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.

Bell Hooks

#18. Black trauma is never given space to heal because we have to make sure the white people who hurt us don't feel too bad about it. Even as victims, we're told to care about the feelings of those who harm us.

Luvvie Ajayi

#19. I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the flashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I finally decided to quit trying to hide from truth, I began to heal.

Karen Marshall