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  • #1
    Dinos Christianopoulos
    “You did anything to bury me, but you forgot that I was a seed.”
    Dinos Christianopoulos

  • #2
    Anne Lamott
    “And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore.”
    Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

  • #3
    Umme Pritam
    “Life is like the ocean. Sometimes, there will be sunshine and harmonious dance in each wave. Then, a time might come when storms are gonna hurl in, crashing everything apart in their way.”
    Umme Pritam, Eiliyah

  • #4
    Fred Rogers
    “Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”
    Fred Rogers

  • #5
    “I'd thought once, actually, of taking your mind, if you asked. I'd thought I could help you fall asleep at night."
    He opened his mouth to say something. Shut it again. His face closed for a moment, his unreadable mask falling into place. He spoke softly. "But that wouldn't be fair; for after I slept you'd be left awake, with no one to help you sleep.”
    Kristin Cashore, Fire

  • #6
    “One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
    Michael J. Fox

  • #7
    bell hooks
    “All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.”
    Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

  • #8
    Judith Lewis Herman
    “In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.”
    Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

  • #9
    “Instead of saying, "I'm damaged, I'm broken, I have trust issues" say "I'm healing, I'm rediscovering myself, I'm starting over.”
    Horacio Jones

  • #10
    Aida Mandic
    “The Dark Cloud
    Is the tragic event that you see that was presented on the news
    Is the horrifying excuse for a father that made you change many views
    Is the vow that was cynical, two-faced, and did not have heart
    Is the bridge between countries that completely fell apart”
    Aida Mandic, The Dark Cloud

  • #11
    Katelyn Saul
    “Moving on felt like burying my past self all over again and swearing to never visit her grave, even if she just wanted flowers. I couldn't bring myself to abandon her entirely.”
    Katelyn Saul, How Roses Grow Thorns

  • #12
    Dana Arcuri
    “We cannot outrun our past trauma. We can’t bury it and think that we will be fine. We cannot skip the essential stage of processing, accepting, and doing the hard, yet necessary trauma recovery work. There’s a body-mind connection. Trauma can manifest itself into chronic physical pain, cancer, inflammation, auto-immune conditions, depression, anxiety, PTSD, Complex PTSD, addictions, and ongoing medical conditions.”
    Dana Arcuri, Certified Trauma Recovery Coach, Soul Rescue: How to Break Free From Narcissistic Abuse & Heal Trauma

  • #13
    Colleen Hoover
    “Cycles exist because they are excruciating to break. It takes an astronomical amount of pain and courage to disrupt a familiar pattern. Sometimes its easier to keep running in the same familiar cycles, rather than facing a fear of jumping and possibly not landing on your feet.”
    Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

  • #14
    “Yes, the Darkness is real. I will show you the shattered and tattered and broken world. A world of fragmented ubiquitous iniquity. You are not insane. The world is. You are simply awake.”
    Raymond Thoss, Vastarien: Vol. 1, Issue 1



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