Overcoming Trauma Quotes

“Cindy Divine and her parents paused by their boat to take in the natural beauty. Lake Barkley could have been a top-paid model for a glossy postcard company that morning. It lay between little hills all dressed up in new green, and its mirror-like water reflected a cloudless sky everywhere except along the shoreline where the hills were upside down. Clusters of blossoms, dogwood and redbud, were scattered here and there on the hillsides, and a brightening red was coloring the sky along the eastern hilltops.”
― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

“I was a sponge filled to capacity with the putrid gray water of all of those who had hurt me. I wondered if, like a sponge, I could be wrung out and I wouldn’t have to carry it anymore.”
― Elle Mitchell

“Survival is an instinct, not a choice.”
― Ron Franscell, The Darkest Night: The Murder of Innocence in a Small Town

“In many ways, the present world system traumatizes us. It keeps us in fear--fear of failure, fear of lack, and fear of man. But praise be to God, the King, because His 'perfect love casts out fear.”
― Sebastien Richard, Kingdom Fundamentals: What the Kingdom of God Means and What it Means for You | A Thorough and Biblical Exposition of the Kingdom of Heaven as Preached by Jesus

“She needs to know she wasn’t weak. She needs to know she was strong enough to survive and they didn’t because she was strong enough to hold on until help could arrive. It will help her heal.”
― Lacey Dancer, Truth Kills

“FORGIVENESS is giving yourself permission to be the divine and loving soul that you are. It is only GIFT that FREES you from your past.”
― Janice Romney, Beyond the Power of Love

“FORGIVENESS is giving yourself permission to be the divine and loving soul that you are. It is the only GIFT that FREES you from your past.”
― Janice Romney

“You're not a mess, Briar. You're a survivor."
A survivor. I never understood how powerful that term could be until now. Not a victim. Not broken. A little banged up and a little fragile, but a survivor, nonetheless.”
― Katee Robert, The Dragon's Bride