If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

My sister don't talk much. When she does, it's only to me, in moth-winged whispers, and only when we're alone.

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

i see the sky as beautiful, Regardless of its shine Because I wake each day grateful, That I get another chance to be alive.

God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him.

Part of the process in healing from trauma, like recovering from addiction, is developing connection and support with others.

Understanding trauma and that we each respond to it differently will help us be supportive and nonjudgmental toward each other.

Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it’s eaten in the author’s belly.

But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word.

The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.

Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can't look at her. Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn't get back.

The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.

Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity ad well.