No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.

Get acquainted with your shadow, or find yourself surprised when a crisis emerges.

Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.

I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial

The initial trauma of a young child may go underground but it will return to haunt us.

You can travel the world but If you cannot let go of the past, you will never move on.

Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4

The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children.

When trauma involves intentional harm, such as in a crime or abuse, trust can totally collapse.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

A broken soul doesn't invest in boundaries because the world has crossed them, without mercy.