“I don't know how to describe the sound of a world crashing. Maybe there is no sound, just a great emptiness, an enveloping sorrow, a creeping nothingness that coils itself around you like a stiff wire.”
― Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir
― Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir
“After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive. When someone enters the pain and hears the screams healing can begin.”
― Emerging With Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, And The LOVE that Heals
― Emerging With Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, And The LOVE that Heals
“There comes a time when something changes you... No matter the impact... Where the world no longer beats in time with you. You no longer feel amongst the fray.. And the feeling of loneliness is a brandished armor you wear the rest of your life.”
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“We don't heal in isolation, but in community.”
― Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion
― Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion
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