Ryan Light

“A trigger is nothing more than a sound, a smell, or some other form of sensory input that our threat-response system associates—however tangentially—with our experiences of past painful learning.”
― J. Eric Gentry, Forward-Facing Trauma Therapy: Healing the Moral Wound

“The saddest moment of my study came when I saw how few people who dated narcissists realized they were in a highly manipulative relationship. They described their partners as “really funny” or “so smart,” despite how bad they felt in that person’s company.”
― Don Barlow, Recovery from Gaslighting & Narcissistic Abuse, Codependency & Complex PTSD (3 in 1): Emotional Abuse, People-Pleasing and Trauma vs. Emotional Regulation, Mindfulness, Independence and Self-Caring

“They are stored in parts of us that words and thoughts cannot directly access—we might even call this level of traumatic encoding “subverbal.” As Peter Levine explains, “Conscious, explicit memory is only the proverbial tip of a very deep and mighty iceberg. It barely hints at the submerged strata of primal implicit experience that moves us in ways the conscious mind can only begin to imagine.”[5]”
― Gabor Maté, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change."
— WAYNE W. DYER —”
― J. Eric Gentry, Forward-Facing Trauma Therapy: Healing the Moral Wound