Connie A. Lofgreen

“Normal memory gradually fades into the past. Traumatic and repressed memories have a tendency to linger around. They are splintered into fragments during overwhelming events experienced as a child. Images, sensations, emotions, and beliefs are torn apart. These disconnected pieces can later erupt into consciousness as separate "memories." These fragments may surface in the form of explicit memories, which are frighteningly vivid snapshot or video-like images of traumatic experiences; or they may surface as implicit memories, which include physical sensations, emotions, or beliefs that were part of the original traumatic experiences. When implicit fragments emerge into the present without an accompanying visually explicit memory, it is very hard to discern that these feelings of anxiety, fear, shame, rage, numbness, and loneliness are related to prior trauma.”
― Connie A. Lofgreen, The Storm of Sex Addiction: Rescue and Recovery

“Children who are not loved in their very beingness do not know how to love themselves. As adults they have to learn to nourish, to mother their own lost child. 1 Marion Woodman”
― Connie A. Lofgreen, The Storm of Sex Addiction: Rescue and Recovery