Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.

Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds.

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

Resiliency is the body's internal response to a stressful situation.

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

Don't be scared of scars. They just tell stories that are hard to hear.

Would they be cheered by their recovery, or marked for life by their trauma?

When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.

You and I were meant to be together, even if we weren't meant to be happy.

Human spirit needs music. Music nourish the soul to survive life's trauma.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

He thought it disproportionate in its violence considering the fragility of us.

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

My God, what have they done to you? This isn't a man, it's a broken kite.