Quotes About Healing

done. Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different. But we cannot move forward if we're still holding on to the pain of that past. All of us who have been broken and scarred by trauma have the chance to turn those experiences into what Dr. Perry and I have been talking about: post-traumatic wisdom. Forgive yourself, forgive them. Step out of your history and into the path of your future.

All of us who have been broken and scarred by trauma have the chance to turn those experiences into what Dr. Perry and I have been talking about: post-traumatic wisdom.

If you look carefully at our biology after a traumatic experience-all the way down to the way genes are expressed-trauma will change everyone in some way.

Forgive yourself, forgive them. Step out of your history and into the path of your future.

What happened to you can be your power.

evocative cues"—basically any sensory input, like a sight, sound, smell, taste, or touch—can activate a traumatic memory.

el castigo, la privación y la fuerza únicamente consiguen volver a traumatizar a estos niños y exacerbar sus problemas.

When you have friends, family, and other healthy people in your life, you have a natural healing environment. We heal best in community. Creating a network-a village, whatever you want to call it-gives you opportunities to revisit trauma in moderate, controllable doses.

where a patient projects his feelings about his parents into other relationships, particularly the one he has with his therapist—be explained by examining the function of the brain?

How ironic that the cultures our modern world has marginalized are the very cultures with the wisdom to heal our modern woes.

It is impossible to be truly wise without some real-life hardship. And we cannot develop post-traumatic wisdom without weathering and, most importantly, as you [Oprah] put, weathering together…A healthy community is a healing community, and a healing community is full of hope because it has seen its own people weather-survive and thrive.

No one knows what a moderate dose of revisiting a trauma memory is better than the actual traumatized person.

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Very often, "what happened" takes years to reveal itself. It takes courage to confront our actions, peel back the layers of trauma in our lives, and expose the raw truth of our past. But this is where healing begins. —

until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. The wounds will bleed through and stain your life, through alcohol, through drugs, through sex, through overworking. You have to have the courage to pull out the wound and begin to heal yourself.

I see that a key to healing from trauma is finding your "church home"—your people, your community. This can help build resilience, post-traumatic healing, and ultimately post-traumatic wisdom. It can help you become wise. Dr. Perry: It is impossible to be truly wise without some real-life hardship.

In order to appreciate how children heal we need to understand how they learn to love, how they cope with challenge, how stress affects them. And by recognizing the destructive impact that violence and threat can have on the capacity to love and work, we can come to better understand ourselves and to nurture the people in our lives, especially the children.

Trauma leaves you shipwrecked. You are left to rebuild your inner world. Part of the rebuilding, the healing process, is revisiting the shattered hull of your old worldview; you sift through the wreckage looking for what remains, seeking your broken pieces. Dreams, intrusive images of the trauma, and reenactment play are your mind struggling to make sense of your new reality.

As these children grow, they lack the ability to set a standard for what they deserve. And if that lack is not addressed, what often follows is a complicated, frustrating pattern of self-sabotage, violence, promiscuity, or addiction.

A lifelong set of beliefs and behaviors can emerge when trauma is experienced at a young age. In one of the most serious manifestations, early sexual abuse can poison intimacy, even if the person has no actual recollection of specific instances of abuse.

asking the fundamental question "What happened to you?" can help each of us know a little more about how experiences—both good and bad—shape

asking the fundamental question "What happened to you?" can help each of us know a little more about how experiences—both good and bad—shape us.

Yes! How were you loved—it makes all the difference. In all the conversations I've had, my experience has been that dysfunction shows up in direct proportion to how you were or were not loved.

rhythm is so important, and it's often overlooked as a therapeutic tool.