Cptsd Recovery Quotes

“You don’t have to glow to be seen. You don’t have to be whole to be worthy.”
― Rita Kay

“Shadows stretch across the room. Silence hums. All wait for the first ray of dawn.”
― Rita Kay, Shhh… Don’t Say It: A Memoir in Fragments on Trauma, Abuse, CPTSD, and Healing

“They tried to make me a fable.
I rewrote myself into pyre.”
― Rita Kay, Her Fire Touched the Sky: Poems of Trauma, Survival, Healing, and the Quiet Rebuilding of a Soul

“Let the villains rot.
Let the system choke.
Let ghosts hang their heads from this place they said I would never reach.

This crown wasn’t given.
It was seized through fire, flashbacks, and sharpened teeth that break handcuffs.

The crown fits my scars now.”
― Rita Kay, Her Fire Touched the Sky: Poems of Trauma, Survival, Healing, and the Quiet Rebuilding of a Soul

“Healing is messy in a weird way that makes you think there is no progress”
― Sarah Abdoun

“I am the child who communicated in a family that didn't communicate. I asked questions and offered my perspectives. There was nothing wrong with this except my family didn't communicate. Therefore, I was perceived as the family problem.”
― Deanna L. Lawlis