Healing From Trauma Quotes

“If people have harmed us, that part is usually a protector whose need to cause injury comes from desperate attempts to not feel destroyed by the pain and fear they are carrying. Generally they are not conscious of this process, but it likely mirrors what has been passed down through the generations in the family.”
― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

“If you feel like this time you won’t survive the pain, remember that you will. You may not like it. There may be times when you don’t even want to, but survive you will. And thrive. And love again. This I know to be true.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“God gives us opportunities to grow and evolve.. Sometimes you can look back and see how your so called sufferings brought you very far. If you see it this way, you can neither be a sufferer nor a victim of anything”
― Mooji

“Then the fight came to her chest, to her throat. She thrust her heel against the ground and stood with violence. 'Give him back! I know you're listening! Give him back to me now!' Storming out of the clearing, across the field, two fists ready, the sharpest teeth for biting. Sending all the rabbits out of sight.”
― Charlene Challenger, Sister Dragon: A Novella

“Why couldn’t she just do what she was supposed to do? She had done it for years with Paega. Why couldn’t she just take it like she had before?

_Because you thought this time would be different._”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, Tears of the Wolf

“Sometimes the smallest gestures—scribbled gratitude, a half-sentence shared, even just showing up in pain—are how we stay tethered to life. Beneath the spirals of shame and the weight of unspoken suffering, there’s still a flicker. A breath. A reach toward connection. And that, in its fragile, fumbling way, is a form of survival. A kind of love.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“Lord, help me to stop making this memory a haven; help me instead to desire healing in this place.”
― Kristy Walker Armstrong, Loving God and Yourself: Creating Space to Live in God's Love