Trauma Healing Quotes

“Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.”
― Peter A. Levine

“If your body is screaming in pain, whether the pain is muscular contractions, anxiety, depression, asthma or arthritis, a first step in releasing the pain may be making the connection between your body pain and the cause. “Beliefs are physical. A thought held long enough and repeated enough becomes a belief. The belief then becomes biology.”
― Marilyn Van M. Derbur, Miss America By Day: Lessons Learned From Ultimate Betrayals And Unconditional Love

“Some things a person’s gotta live with, and for me, it’s nightmares.”
― Laurie Loveman, Memories

“Through mirror neurons and resonance circuitry, we are taking in each other's bodily state, feelings and intention in each emerging moment (Iacoboni, 2009).

This gives us an approximate empathic sense of what is happening in the other person, but it is important to be aware that the information is also being filtered through our implicit lens.

This filtering colors our perceptions and pretty much guarantees there will be ruptures that invite repairs, as our offers of empathy will sometimes not reflect what the other person is experiencing.”
― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

“But you can’t escape from shadows or pain. You only find new ones. It’s better, I think, not to try to escape them at all but to accept that they will be there, and to remember that good things happen, too, even if you can’t always see them.”
― Christina Henry, Looking Glass

“Interpersonal neurobiology asks us to place no boundaries on where and how it might illuminate our world.

It is possible that every moment has the potential to be therapeutic in some way.”
― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

“The hardest escape is from the lies we are told about ourselves, and the detrimental damages they do”
― Zoë Collins, Amor Fati: An Incredible True Story of Survival, Hope & Healing

“Mother ache healing matters because it restores the foundation of our lives. It returns us to the place where love first faltered, so that we may learn to love in a new way, this time with awareness. It makes possible a new lineage, one that passes down presence and truth, rather than our inherited survival adaptations. When we heal the mother ache within ourselves, we heal forward and backward in time. We change the stories that shape our lives, our families, our communities, and Mother Earth who holds us all.”
― Deva Arani, The Mother Ache: Healing the Wounded Daughter Within

“Each of us carries a story written in the language of our mothers, still echoing through our bones.”
― Deva Arani, The Mother Ache: Healing the Wounded Daughter Within

“I call this place the mother ache rather than the mother wound because it is not only pain but also longing—the pull toward wholeness beneath the wound. The word wound belongs to the language of fixing and repair, but the word ache speaks in the language of reverence. It is the tender pulse that reminds us we are made of love and that our journey is a remembrance of this truth. To ache is to honor this love, intrinsic belonging, and the yearning to return home to ourselves.”
― Deva Arani, The Mother Ache: Healing the Wounded Daughter Within

“It was having everything I had counted on collapse so suddenly, forcing me to let go of the idea that I could control outcomes. It was the loss of my identity as a wife, my identity as part of a married couple. I had to get comfortable existing outside the norm, outside of what had once been my ideal.”
― Belle Burden, Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage

“When the world around you comes in and hits, or activates, your stored patterns, you can no longer observe reality objectively. Your consciousness gets drawn into the activated samskaras, and everything becomes distorted.”
― Michael A. Singer, Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament

“I believe facing the darkness is one of the most powerful ways to overcome the pain. Healing begins when you can finally name what hurts, and stop running from the darkness inside you.”
― Rosella Tran, The Storm Is In The Mind, Not In You

“I wanted to create a home free from fear - starting with my own healing.”
― Denika Fercho, Broken Secrets

“Motherhood magnifies both love and struggles.”
― Denika Fercho, Broken Secrets

“Victims will never process and heal from extreme childhood abuse unless therapy focusses on the actual abuse memories, including the thoughts and feelings experienced during the childhood trauma incident, instead of what the adult victim presently thinks and feels about their memories of Extreme Abuse.”
― Fiona Barnett, Eyes Wide Open

“Real change starts in the body—not the mind. It’s not psychology, but physiology, that drives transformation.”
― Emad Aldajani, MOVEMENT IS HEALING: A Bold Approach to Breaking Through Trauma

“Flashbacks are triggered when the victim returns to the state of mind they were in at the time of the original trauma. This mechanism is based on the concept of state-dependent memory which determines that memory retrieval works best when a victim is in the same state of consciousness they were in when the memory was created.”
― Fiona Barnett, Eyes Wide Open

“I don't know why you think people don't like you. Why shouldn't they, unless"--Sam came to a halt in front of Rose--"unless it's because you don't like the rest of us very much. You're not exactly the friendliest person in the world, you know.”
― Janet Lunn, The Root Cellar

“There comes a moment when survival is no longer enough. The soul begins demanding sovereignty.”
― Michelle Raney, Forged From Fire: From Survival to Sovereignty

“People do not change just because time passes. They only change when the bedrocks of their soul begin to move.”
― Magdalena ., A Dark Life of the Soul : The Light Within

“The night never asked anything of her. It simply held her. It mirrored her truth when the world was blurring it.”
― Magdalena ., A Dark Life of the Soul : The Light Within

“You have learned to treasure the inconsistent warmth of others, and this is why you will spend years confusing scarcity for love.”
― Magdalena ., A Dark Life of the Soul : The Light Within

“When survival becomes a habit, you forget it was ever a fight.”
― L. Sim

“I am never too much or not enough, because I am not a problem to be solved or a value to be measured. I am simply the vastness in between, a mystery to be inhabited. I am stardust walking among stardust, briefly arranged into a mortal body, moving with everyone else toward the same inevitable return. I am ordinary. I am human. I am a woman standing barefoot in the ruins of an old story, holding a broom, sweeping slowly.”
― Monica Lynn Brodovsky, A Soul to Fight Beside

“In our shared fragility, we face a choice. I choose to be curious. I choose to look directly at the hidden hurts that drive my sharpest edges with tenderness, not shame. I reach into that pain and tell it: I see you. I accept you. I love you. I will hold my wounds with enough honesty that they do not become someone else’s burden to carry. For the sake of my beloved children, I choose to break cycles, not hearts. I choose to stop breaking my own heart, too.”
― Monica Lynn Brodovsky, A Soul to Fight Beside

“A younger part of me expected devotion to protect me from rejection, and that depth would guarantee me reciprocity. I thought if I loved fiercely enough, the ending would have to be tender too. The thing is, love is not a transaction, and therefore, pain is not a receipt. No one owes me a life because I imagined one with them, healing because they hurt me, or closure because I can articulate the wound in elegant prose.”
― Monica Lynn Brodovsky, A Soul to Fight Beside

“What do you do when you run out of road? You stop. You sit in the unbearable heat of your own presence. You let the pain take up its full, terrifying space in the room without trying to domesticate it or turn it into a triumph. It’s not the part of the story that wins a standing ovation; it’s just the messy reality of a person finally present with themself. It’s the least impressive thing I’ve ever done, and yet it may be the most honest.”
― Monica Lynn Brodovsky, A Soul to Fight Beside

“You shouldn’t restrict yourself from showing your real emotions, don't expect perfection from yourself. Cry all you want, you won’t be judged”
― Memona Hassan, The Silent Lips

“It is okay to not be okay. Every day is not your happy day.”
― Memona Hassan, The Silent Lips