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“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 is no one way to recover and heal from any trauma. Each survivor chooses their own path or stumbles across it.”
― Behind Enemy Lines
― Behind Enemy Lines
“But we know that people are complicated and have a mixture of flaws and talents and sins. So why do we pretend that we don’t?”
― So You've Been Publicly Shamed
― So You've Been Publicly Shamed
“Legacy. What is a legacy?
It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.”
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It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.”
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