“Doesn’t matter how tough we are. Trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home. It changes our lives. Trauma messes everybody up but maybe that’s the point. All the pain and the fear and the crap, maybe going through all that is what keeps us moving forward. It’s what pushes us. Maybe we have to g…”— Alex Karev, imdb.com
“Executed effectively and done chronically, gaslighting causes self-doubt and cognitive dissonance – a state of turmoil stirred by inconsistent attitudes and beliefs. Survivors of emotional predators sense that something is amiss, but when they attempt to address it, they are often blindsided by thei…”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Healing has no timeline, no deadline, and no concrete measure like pills in a cup – in fact, forcing yourself to heal or comparing your healing to others is a prescription for poison rather than a cure. Sometimes healing comes in a quiet silence or a less shaky breath when you speak. Sometimes it’s…”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Regardless of what your spiritual beliefs are, let’s put them to good use. Let’s extend the idea of interconnectedness to help victims who suffer every day from the realities of verbal, emotional, physical and sexual abuse. Let’s stop letting abusers off the hook and enabling their behavior – it is…”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to others then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself.”— Nikita Gill, meanwhilepoetry.tumblr.com
“Are men victims of sexual abuse? Absolutely. Should they be more encouraged to speak out and be made to feel safe, respected, and listened to? Of course. But women are finally being able to air their trauma — and it can't, can't, can't be treated as competition.”— Lea Rose Emery, bustle.com
“It's impossible to describe the trauma of being the child of an abusive mason. But it's twenty years later and I'm still shitting bricks.”— TokyoCalling, reddit.com
“Traumatic experiences are broken bones of the soul. If you engage in the process of recovery, you get stronger. If you don’t, the bones remain porous, with permanent holes inside, and you are considerably weaker.”— Ellen McGrath, psychologytoday.com
“No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.”— Leslie Jamison, amazon.com
“When you love a girl who’s gone through trauma, you’re saying that you see the worth in helping her bandage the wounds. You’re saying that you see the worth someone else tried to bury.”— Kendra Syrdal, thoughtcatalog.com
“More people experience post traumatic growth than post traumatic stress. After trauma we grow.”— Sheryl Sandberg, twitter.com
“There are moments which mark your life. Moments when you realize nothing will ever be the same and time is divided into two parts, before this, and after this. Sometimes you can feel such a moment coming. That’s the test, or so I tell myself. I tell myself that at times like that, strong people keep…”— John Hobbes, imdb.com
“You're wrong when you say that other people have recovered from the trauma, they've simply hidden it away in a place they never go to.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Empaths are not your punching bags. Trauma isn’t a justification to mistreat others. There is no excuse to abuse someone else. While I love to help others, as an empath, I am not responsible for fixing your life or catering to your toxicity. I am not responsible for managing your triggers, walking o…”— Shahida Arabi, amazon.com
“I know how it feels to be in a fistfight with yourself, with your memories, with your trauma, with your pain.”— Fortesa Latifi, madgirlf.tumblr.com
“Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations. This feeling is stronger than any intellectual insight they might have, that it is not a child's task or duty to satisfy his parents needs. No argument can overc…”— Alice Miller, goodreads.com