Trauma Quotes - Page 12

• I write about how I was attracted to stripping because I didn't feel comfortable with my body, for instance, but there could be plenty of not-so-good reasons why I chose to go into journalism, too. Maybe someone had a trauma in childhood and it led them to become a nurse, or a lawyer, but because people stigmatize sex work they try to find a traumatic moment in your past and say, "There!"

  Craig Seymour

  Sex, Writing, Past

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love this idea of the body as a trauma archive!

  Heidi Julavits

  Ideas, Archives, Body

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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• When you are doing seven shows a week, you have to take care of yourself. There are some moments when you cannot allow yourself to emotionally reenact the issue you're talking about or the experience that you're remembering. I mean that would kill you, you know. To experience a thing, a trauma, every single night, it would probably kill you emotionally.

  Staceyann Chin

  Mean, Night, Issues

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma.

  Norman Doidge

  People, Brain, Saws

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• I think generational trauma also plays a big part in the reactions to Israeli politics.

  Jill Soloway

  Thinking, Play, Reactions

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My interest, perhaps, came out of the trauma of being a young immigrant in this country and constantly feeling my "resident alien" status. I remember trying to learn English on kindergarten playgrounds. I tried hard to be a convincing American but it was a losing battle. I was labeled weird and that tag never left me - all through high school, I was always the oddball. It was not always an easy path - I just had to tell myself that one day, being on the periphery would become an asset (and I think it finally has, as a creative adult).

  Porochista Khakpour

  Country, School, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Through Heaven's Gate and Back speaks to all of us that have been abused as children. Lee Thornton's descriptions of the aftereffects of repeated trauma and a profound Near-Death Experience (NDE) are not only true but explained in a way that the reader can take in. It is rare to find a book so well written that it has both sexual abuse and an NDE under one cover. We definitely will be recommending this book to our patients.

  Charles L. Whitfield

  Children, Book, Profound

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• Just take Germany and the suffering of Jews during and after the Second World War. It would be legal to ridicule and to laugh at this suffering, but since it was such a trauma on the European conscience, no one is going to do it. It is an open scar, an open wound, an open reality.

  Tariq Ramadan

  War, Reality, Laughing

  "'You want my reaction? You get my silence.'". Interview with Lars Mensel and Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. November 19, 2012.

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• I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Kind, Ability

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• I think many of us get separated from the mothership - our body - early on. I think the mothership is also the Earth, and life itself. Trauma separates us from that and dissociates us from our hearts.

  Eve Ensler

  Heart, Thinking, Body

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

  Bell Hooks

  White, Tools, Shame

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• Trauma dissociates us from the parts of our body that are wounded, so we have to leave our whole body. It's a journey you take your whole life, that coming back in, re-landing in your body, in your self, on the Earth. I think one of the reasons it's been so easy, in a way, for us to violate both women and the Earth is this profound dissociation that exists in everyone.

  Eve Ensler

  Journey, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The trauma of the whole thing has been humbling, and for the first time, I'm a little bit wobbly.

  Olivia Wilde

  Husband, Thinking, Healthy

  "Olivia Wilde Finalizes Divorce". www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 4, 2011.

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• [Christian from the Fifty Shades Darker] is definitely a good person. I mean, he's flawed like all of us, you know? And I guess all of his wounds or his trauma, he acts out sexually. Which is pretty normal. People have different wounds, people act different things out.

  Bella Heathcote

  Christian, Mean, People

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• 9/11 was a genuine trauma, and President George W. Bush rallied the country. I think the Iraq war was ill-considered, but there - it was done in the wake of a national trauma. And that the errors made under such circumstances are different than errors made in the cold.

  Daniel Fried

  Country, War, Thinking

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The NFL acknowledges that repetitive trauma to the head in football... can cause a permanent, disabiling injury to the brain.

  Bob Fitzsimmons

  Football, Nfl, Brain

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• Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level.

  Michael Helm

  Important, Levels, Certain

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Aunt May's values and Spiderman's traumas are kind of what's defined him as a young boy and now that he's becoming a young man, she's there to provide that safe place where he can still be a kid if he needs to be, or know that he has a home base as he's going through all these physical changes. So as long as those essentials are there, we can work on finding the character together.

  Marisa Tomei

  Character, Kids, Home

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• You must get Israelis to understand the feelings and the hopes and the traumas of the Palestinians. You have to get the Palestinians to understand why Israel is behaving the way it does: What is the legacy of the Holocaust, what are the fears of average Jewish people?

  Uri Avnery

  Israel, Average, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• The one thing we can all relate to is family, and family has its traumas sometimes. Sometimes things don't go well for people. Sometimes things are tough. So everybody kind of knows someone who's been in this situation before, and I think that's what makes it work.

  Mark Millar

  Thinking, People, Tough

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I have been through a lot of medical trauma. I was diagnosed with breast cancer .

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Cancer, Medical, Breasts

  Source: bookpage.com

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• [Carrie Fisher] could talk about issues that very few people could. She could make her bipolar disorder both real and entertaining. Carrie deserves a lot of credit for giving voice to traumas that few people feel comfortable talking about.

  Tony Taccone

  Real, Talking, Voice

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Suffering, Positive Change, Lasting

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• The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.

  Sigmund Freud

  Reality, Ego, Suffering

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• For too long we have been protecting the ones who have hurt us by minimizing our trauma and deprivation. It's time to stop protecting them and start to protect ourselves. We have been told and feel that we are responsible for their emotional well-being. We are not. We are responsible only for ourselves.

  Beverly Engel

  Hurt, Emotional, Long

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