Trauma Quotes
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As we’ve seen, the essence of trauma is feeling godforsaken, cut off from the human race.
Bessel van der Kolk
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The essence of trauma is that it is overwhelming, unbelievable, and unbearable. Each patient demands that we suspend our sense of what is normal and accept that we are dealing with a dual reality: the reality of a relatively secure and predictable present that lives side by side with a ruinous, ever-present past.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies.
Bessel van der Kolk
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I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.
Ricky Williams