Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Our scans showed that Broca’s area went offline whenever a flashback was triggered. In other words, we had visual proof that the effects of trauma are not necessarily different from—and can overlap with—the effects of physical lesions like strokes. All trauma is preverbal.

Bessel van der Kolk

• Trauma
• Triggered
• Broca's Area

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• Watching the ball is always a good starting point.

  

  Andrew Strauss
  • Point
  • Ball
  • Watching

• The least punk thing I ever did was open a money market account. Blue chip stocks. Mutual funds. They're a very safe and dependable way to grow your money long-term.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Money
  • Safe
  • Stocks

• History is full of instances of people who challenged the mighty forces of evil and they were not only fighting a lonely battle but were left alone to die.

  

  Asghar Ali Engineer
  • Battle
  • Forces
  • Challenged

• Whether Iranians are drinking wine in the evening or painting something "offensive," they choose not to dwell on the fact that they could receive some seventh-century punishment. Laws are inconsistently enforced, and you can usually pay off police to look the other way.

  

  Azadeh Moaveni
  • Police
  • Laws
  • Punishment

• She felt like a juggler tossing torches into the air. The circus-master kept throwing more in. Sooner or later, one would fall, and the life she'd built would burn to cinders.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Life
  • She
  • Torches

• We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.

  

  Bernard of Chartres
  • Giants
  • Shoulders
  • Dwarfs

• Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Charity
  • Poison
  • Slander

• The very idea of "managing" a forest in the first place is oxymoronic, because a forest is an ecosystem that is by definition self-managing.

  

  Bernd Heinrich
  • Forest
  • Definition
  • Self-managing

• This is Zemzem near Mecca. According to this, however, Hagar headed into the Arabian Peninsula rather than toward Egypt.

  

  Abraham ibn Ezra
  • Egypt
  • Headed
  • Hagar

• A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.

  

  Abraham Isaac Kook
  • Thing
  • Little
  • Remnant

• I feel like a lot of people are very career-driven and there's pressure to be successful. You put off relationships. You put off those intimate relationships because you're just work-driven. It's a very sweet term, undateable.

  

  Brigitte Michael Sumner
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Career-driven

• You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Mind
  • Tragically

• Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I'm in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you've had, you can still love yourself.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Character
  • Humanity
  • Hug

• 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
  • Childhood
  • Body
  • Write

• You can always accuse my records of being harrowing or dark or bleak. There is processing of trauma on my records and they contain a lot of healing. As a person who has been watching other's rage for years, instead of having my own tantrums, I keep the feelings inside until I can find a way of making them into music. The songs are like healing spells and it really works for me. When I really do a good job on a song, it gets rid of a weight. As far as hope goes, there is hope that you can heal through processing stuff and make it through to the other side. That's all I can hope for.

  

  EMA
  • Hope
  • Records
  • Healing

• Own your beauty whatever shape or form it comes in.

  

  Kathryn Budig
  • Form
  • Shapes

• Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to perform. As a consequence, it is the most democratic and most competitive of all sports because individual merit can prevail despite economic equality. It is a sport for everyone, the whole world over.

  

  Bernd Heinrich
  • Sports
  • Equality
  • Consequence

• Our scans showed that Broca’s area went offline whenever a flashback was triggered. In other words, we had visual proof that the effects of trauma are not necessarily different from—and can overlap with—the effects of physical lesions like strokes. All trauma is preverbal.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Trauma
  • Triggered
  • Broca's Area