#trauma quote

[the-wanderer]

[aquotecollection]

What good is a coherent narrative if people don’t want to hear it? Because trauma won’t leave you alone until you feel safe, and safety is not something that an individual can summon on their own. Safety is not a gun. Safety is being able to trust that those around you WANT to protect you from harm. But if those around you don’t believe you are “like them,” then they will focus on the discomfort you make them feel, and that discomfort is not a safe space

Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation, Hannah Gadsby

[petitjeanofficial]

The essence of trauma, is loss of contact with yourself.

Gabor Mate

[shadowsoulcollective]

I don't recognize the person I see in the mirror.

[tinypaperbutterflies]

For me, there was almost as much pain in realizing that my childhood was miserable as there was in living it.

[aquotecollection]

Being healed isn’t about feeling nothing. Being healed is about feeling the appropriate emotions at the appropriate times and still being able to come back to yourself. That’s just life.

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma, Stephanie Foo

[petitjeanofficial]

Sometimes, what's meant to be a temporary state... becomes a long term trait.

Dr. Gabor Maté