23 Quotes by Kenny Weiss

My trauma changed who I was as a person.

Trauma has a way of overwhelming us. When we are threatened, our first response is fight, flight, or freeze.

Some people equate trauma to something big like war, death, extreme acts of violence, physical abuse, sexual abuse, or natural disasters. While those are all examples of trauma, trauma doesn’t have to be big like that.

The adrenaline rush of fear shuts down the cognitive thinking and reasoning part of our brain. When we are afraid, we automatically go into denial because our brain seeks homeostasis whenever possible.

At any age, we tend to rationalize trauma, to minimize it, suppress it, repress it, and most of all deny it.