Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Frewen and his colleague Ruth Lanius found that the more people were out of touch with their feelings, the less activity they had in the self-sensing areas of the brain. Because traumatized people often have trouble sensing what is going on in their bodies, they lack a nuanced response to frustration. They either react to stress by becoming “spaced out” or with excessive anger. Whatever their response, they often can’t tell what is upsetting them. This failure to be in touch with their bodies contributes to their well-documented lack of self-protection and high rates of revictimization and also to their remarkable difficulties feeling pleasure, sensuality, and having a sense of meaning.
Bessel van der Kolk
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As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
Daniel Breaker
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Ed O'Neill
Actually, lots of women, when they're pregnant, feel like steel. They feel incredible.
Olivia Colman
I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.
Eddie Campbell
The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.
Barry Eisler
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
Alexander Hamilton
I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.
Mark Messier
I like the acting. It's how I started, and I sort of feel that if I don't give it a little shot now, and I go back, then I'm pretty much done with it. I mean, at what age am I going to do it at? Although, when you see Christopher Plummer and Max von Sydow doing it, I guess the answer is 80.
Albert Brooks
I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.
Alber Elbaz
Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.
Andrea Bocelli
I go out and walk around the yard. Sometimes I'll cut grass.
Patty Loveless
I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.
Luke Evans
He has so often told me he is madly in love with me, but what does that mean when I haven't had a good word from him in three months?
Eva Braun
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
John Webster
Sports commentating is the answer for a restless brain like mine. I can never get bored because there is an infinite amount to know.
Clare Balding
If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.
Albert Brooks
Frewen and his colleague Ruth Lanius found that the more people were out of touch with their feelings, the less activity they had in the self-sensing areas of the brain. Because traumatized people often have trouble sensing what is going on in their bodies, they lack a nuanced response to frustration. They either react to stress by becoming “spaced out” or with excessive anger. Whatever their response, they often can’t tell what is upsetting them. This failure to be in touch with their bodies contributes to their well-documented lack of self-protection and high rates of revictimization and also to their remarkable difficulties feeling pleasure, sensuality, and having a sense of meaning.
Bessel van der Kolk
