“Unlike simple stress, trauma changes your view of your life and yourself. It shatters your most basic assumptions about yourself and your world — “Life is good,” “I’m safe,” “People are kind,” “I can trust others,” “The future is likely to be good” — and replaces them with feelings like “The world is dangerous,” “I can’t win,” “I can’t trust other people,” or “There’s no hope.”
― Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder For Dummies
― Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder For Dummies
“our pets help us through hard times. “In dark hours,” the poet W. H. Auden wrote of his dog Rolfi, “your silence may be of more help than many two-legged comforters.”
― Goodbye, Friend: Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet
― Goodbye, Friend: Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet
“PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.”
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“Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.”
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“That we leave our homes, that we step through our doors to the world, that we travel our whole lives not because we want to collect exotic T-shirts, not because we want to consume foreign adventure the same Western way we consume plastic and Styrofoam and LCD TVs and iPads, but because it has the power to renew us—not the guarantee, not the promise, just the possibility. Because there are places our imaginations can never construct for us, and there are people who we will never meet but we could and we might. It reminds us that there is always reason to begin again.”
― Tales of Iceland or "Running with the Huldufólk in the Permanent Daylight"
― Tales of Iceland or "Running with the Huldufólk in the Permanent Daylight"
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