I had been fortified by trauma, the way a bone, once broken, grows back stronger than it had been.

Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.

Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later.

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.

God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.

Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.

Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life

There are no injuries that run so deep that one can't add insult to them and make them feel even worse.

Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)

Our identities are tremendously warped and distorted by yesterday's trauma and tomorrow's expectations.

Mind control is built in lies and manipulation of attachment needs.Valerie Sinason, from the Forward of the book

We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.

Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.

The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems.Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.