Top 36 Quotes About Trauma Recovery
#1. When we seek to escape from inner conflict and pain, we are running away from unresolved childhood trauma or original pain. Most people with serious addictive natures who are in the process of recovery have found that trauma played a huge role in escalating their addictions. It certainly did for me.
Christopher Dines
#2. We don't necessarily need to know each other's name, age, profession, drug of choice, childhood trauma or recent tragedy to understand what pain feels like and offer comfort. We are strangers drawn together by a shared desire for lasting peace.
Marta Mrotek
#4. Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...
Asa Don Brown
#5. Only in America could you find a way to make a healthy buck,
And still keep your attitude on self-destruct.
Daniel Dumile
#6. I cannot stand the words Get over it. All of us are under such pressure to put our problems in the past tense. Slow down. Don't allow others to hurry your healing. It is a process, one that may take years, occasionally, even a lifetime - and that's OK.
Beau Taplin
#7. It i impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever, so you try to avoid it whenever you can.
Christopher Strachey
#8. I try to keep in shape and I always have to check myself. Whenever I binge eat, sweets are the one temptation.
Morris Chestnut
#9. See it for what it is and own it, rather than rethink it so you don't have to deal with the trauma of the abuse. This is the only way to move on--through acceptance.
Shannon L. Alder
#10. When we are forced to endure what we cannot endure, something breaks inside our minds. That broken-mindedness is commonly called trauma.
John A. Macdougall
#11. As one anthropologist pointed out to me, trauma is usually a group experience, so trauma recovery should be a group experience as well. But in our society it's not.
Jonathan Franzen
#12. 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
#13. Is the person I was before dead? Or will the worst things that happened to me eventually get diluted by the rest of my life, become just a part of the story that I've always been writing?
Rebecca Rosenblum
#14. Daniel, my big brother, is eight years older. I'm lucky he didn't mind hanging out with his little sister and my younger brother.
Samantha Stosur
#15. This was because I was not the kind of girl who ever got to feel full. I knew that. I just had to learn to stop forgetting
Kristen Ashley
#16. Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework ...
Asa Don Brown
#17. Recovery unfolds in three stages. The central task of the first stage is the establishment of safety. The central task of the second stage is remembrance and mourning. The central focus of the third stage is reconnection with ordinary life.
Judith Lewis Herman
#18. In that hurry to achieve, I've left little time for self-reflection. And I'm not sure I'm ready for it.
Cindy McCormick Martinusen
#19. Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.
Philip James Bailey
#20. Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.
Asa Don Brown
#21. Would they be cheered by their recovery, or marked for life by their trauma?
Dan Wells
#22. Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific ...
Asa Don Brown
#23. Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.
Asa Don Brown
#24. Some flowers need flames to find their way into this world.
Cindy Campopiano
#25. Every man reaches his destination, if he just keeps walking
Philen Naidu
#26. I now had to walk everywhere rather than just deciding to go places. I admit I was disappointed about that part, since being a ghost had made me quite lazy. Stupid living people with their walking and stepping!
Dennis Liggio
#27. Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.
Judith Lewis Herman
#28. I want to just go back to being the person I was before, but you can't stop being the person you've become. You just have to keep going forward.
Rebecca Rosenblum
#30. Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
Oprah Winfrey
#31. There's no doubt that he's heading straight for tragedy. It will be beautiful, of course, but should he throw his whole life away as a sacrificial offering to such a fleeting beauty--like a bird in flight glimpsed from a window?
Yukio Mishima
#32. If somebody says 'no', you're asking the wrong person".
Kris Jenner
#33. You come to the sobering realization that things will never stop from keep happening constantly
Andrew Hussie
#34. There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.
Stefan Molyneux
#35. Because modern society has almost completely eliminated trauma and violence from everyday life, anyone who does suffer those things is deemed to be extraordinarily unfortunate. This gives people access to sympathy and resources but also creates an identity of victimhood that can delay recovery.
Sebastian Junger
#36. The only way to get over the pain is to face it, embrace it, hug it and learn the lessons embedded within it.
Adele Theron
