Emotional Trauma Quotes

“Each human being deals with hurt or resentment in a unique way. When you feel insulted or bullied, you may reach for a chocolate bar. In the same circumstance, I might burst into tears. Another person may put his or her feelings quickly into words, confronting the mistreatment directly. Although our feelings can influence how we wish to act, our choices of how to behave are ultimately determined more by our attitudes and our habits. We respond to our emotional wounds based on what we believe about ourselves, how we think about the person who has hurt us, and how we perceive the world. Only in people who are severely traumatized or who have major mental illnesses is behavior governed by feelings. And only a tiny percentage of abusive men have these kinds of severe psychological problems.”
― Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

“The only way to get over the pain is to face it, embrace it, hug it and learn the lessons embedded within it.”
― Adele Theron

“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.”
― Adele Theron

“Don’t kill yourself when your scorching sun intensifies; the very hot sun is a very good recipe for a heavy rainfall.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“The goal of all principled people is to recognize truth. Simple or complex thoughts and feelings standing alone rarely express any universal truths. Thoughts and feelings combine to create profound truths and compose extravagant falsities. Truth making exposes certain falsehoods, and lies shed light upon irrefutable truths. Art reveals the pageantry of nature along with the unmitigated grotesqueness that accompanies an earthly life. The search for truth begins with an intellectual journey into darkness whereas the search for beauty requires an imaginative act trussed with the classical beauty of Apollonian lightness. Aesthetic appreciation represents the perfect reconciliation of the sensual and rational parts of humankind’s animalistic nature. Similar to aesthetic experience – contemplation of beauty without imposition of a worldly agenda – love depends upon human sensory-emotional values, a judgement of values and sentiments.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The issues we often run away from and refuse to address, are the very things that end up transforming our lives when we choose and commit to healing from buried emotional wounds.”
― Kemi Sogunle, Beyond the Pain by Kemi Sogunle

“Although the possibility of emotional trauma is ever-present, so too is the possibility of forming bonds of deep emotional attunement within which devastating emotional pain can be held, rendered more tolerable, and, hopefully, eventually integrated.”
― Robert D. Stolorow

“I regard longings for twinship or emotional kinship as being reactive to emotional trauma, with its accompanying feelings of singularity, estrangement, and solitude.”
― Robert D. Stolorow

“Since the caveman days, fear has been a powerful motivator that can influence our decision-making. Nowadays, however, we aren’t running from wild animals, but instead are afraid of emotional trauma, change, disappointment and rejection.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Internalized parental voices probably originate in the left hemisphere of the brain, where language and logic rule. When the left brain is allowed to run the show, it puts perfectionism and efficiency before feeling, and judgment before compassion”
― Lindsay Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents