155 Quotes About Childhood-trauma

For many of these women, the root of their injury stems from a damaged relation with the father. They may have been wounded by a bad relation to their personal father, or wounded by the patriarchal society which itself functions like a poor father, culturally devaluing the worth of women.

Keep your heart wide open and you’ll be received with open hearts — not by everyone, but to be received by one open heart is more than worth the journey.

When people encounter the free market and they recoil or react negatively to it, they're merely confessing that voluntaryism, trade and negotiation are foreign and threatening to them, which tells you everything about how tragically they were raised.

I used to scream, “Daddy!” and hug him when he came home,Until one day I got scared hugging a father I didn’t know.Who is daddy except for that one man in my house at nightTo eat dinner, sleep, and go away again?

An individual's perception and worldview are thought to be determined early in life.

Being controlling, being judgmental, or always having to be right are other ways that adults may inflict trauma on children.

My mother gave birth to the child I was, but it was me who gave birth to the man I am today.

Children are not born for the benefit of their parents, neither are they the property of their family. Children belong to the future.

By the time I was five, he yelled at me so much I thought my name was Asshole.