52 Quotes About Trauma-healing
- Author Kenny Weiss
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We deny, suppress, repress, and minimize our trauma to preserve our self-concept. By doing so, we set ourselves up for repeating the cycle again.
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- Author Kenny Weiss
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Our brain and body become addicted to the feelings associated with our trauma and our worst day because they have been firing more than any other feeling.
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- Author Kenny Weiss
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No matter what kind of childhood we’ve had, nobody escapes trauma while growing up.
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- Author Kenny Weiss
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For those of us who haven’t been taught how to deal with our trauma, we get stuck living in the worst day ever. The intense feelings of those moments replay themselves throughout our life because, in an effort to heal, we unintentionally and proactively seek them out and re-inflict them upon ourselves.
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- Author Kenny Weiss
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Unaddressed trauma survives in a vacuum, fueling our thoughts and behaviors, so we inadvertently re-create the same feelings we had when we first experienced the trauma. We call this the Worst Day Cycle.
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- Author Adele Theron
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The fear of what might happen stops people but the trauma process is so beautiful and transformational. There is nothing to fear in our emotions, they will not swallow you whole - they will speak to you in profound ways.
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- Author Ralph De La Rosa
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Sometimes it can seem like your inner child part isn’t receptive to your care. It’s as if this part ofyou isn’t used to receiving such goodness from others, or even from you, and they might nottrust it. If that happens, know that this is common and will change over time. Sometimes weneed to make amends with our parts for how things have been until now. Sometimes we justneed to gently continue wishing them well regardless of their reaction.
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- Author Christina Henry
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But you can’t escape from shadows or pain. You only find new ones. It’s better, I think, not to try to escape them at all but to accept that they will be there, and to remember that good things happen, too, even if you can’t always see them.
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- Author Laura Gentile
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I unbury the pastso that I can name the graves.
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