Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
In contrast, EMDR, as well as the treatments discussed in subsequent chapters—internal family systems, yoga, neurofeedback, psychomotor therapy, and theater—focus not only on regulating the intense memories activated by trauma but also on restoring a sense of agency, engagement, and commitment through ownership of body and mind.
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We all thought we'd have flying cars by now, but we don't.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.
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I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.
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I really feel it's time to dissolve the current relationship of governor and lieutenant governor by running as a ticket.
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A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
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As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels; intellectually, because you have to learn a new language and adapt to another culture, and on a footballing level too.
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'You're no help,' he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.
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The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.
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What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.
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The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.
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The expectation of gradual policy normalization should reduce the likelihood of outsized movements in interest rates.
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I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.
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My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.
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Yoga has been something that's always there to take with me and practice throughout any journey. There's no place I've ever been where yoga hasn't fit itself in. I currently work on a commercial fishing boat in Alaska and I am still able to find time to lay my mat on the deck and practice what makes me the best me I can be, thanks to yoga.
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Once you start growing in your self-realization, you develop such a personality that you see the whole world as one.
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My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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In contrast, EMDR, as well as the treatments discussed in subsequent chapters—internal family systems, yoga, neurofeedback, psychomotor therapy, and theater—focus not only on regulating the intense memories activated by trauma but also on restoring a sense of agency, engagement, and commitment through ownership of body and mind.
