52 Quotes About Trauma-healing

as one who will continue to practice radical inclusiveness as I fail again and again, I can say it is quite a relief to embrace the limitations of being human.

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

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.

We stayed with the one who felt dead inside, acknowledging his protective value, even though we had no cognitive awareness of who and what he was sheltering ...'What is this depression, this one who is so still, wanting to tell us?

It isn't fair the way memory twists up the things it shows you.

Maybe - you didn't have so much control over your life as a kid. So, to avoid disappointment, you learned never to ask yourself what you truly wanted.

Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.

Maybe he thought someone had to bear witness to the dark, or maybe he hoped that if he stared into the pitch-black long enough, his eyes would adjust and he'd see answers hiding in it.This is why bad things happen, the dark would say. This is how it all makes sense.

This shift from intellectual to embodied compassion is at the heart of deep forgiveness, or what we call compassionate release that gives us the gift of not needing to fend off the ones who hurt us anymore. It is a letting go at a different depth.