Trauma Healing Quotes

“Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.”
― Peter A. Levine

“If your body is screaming in pain, whether the pain is muscular contractions, anxiety, depression, asthma or arthritis, a first step in releasing the pain may be making the connection between your body pain and the cause. “Beliefs are physical. A thought held long enough and repeated enough becomes a belief. The belief then becomes biology.”
― Marilyn Van M. Derbur, Miss America By Day: Lessons Learned From Ultimate Betrayals And Unconditional Love

“The first fall made me stronger
Another and then the other one made me
hollow inside

The last fall will break me
But I will survive”
― Annette Dabrowska, Behind the Ghost Metropolis: Mental Health and Healing Poetry Book

“Through mirror neurons and resonance circuitry, we are taking in each other's bodily state, feelings and intention in each emerging moment (Iacoboni, 2009).

This gives us an approximate empathic sense of what is happening in the other person, but it is important to be aware that the information is also being filtered through our implicit lens.

This filtering colors our perceptions and pretty much guarantees there will be ruptures that invite repairs, as our offers of empathy will sometimes not reflect what the other person is experiencing.”
― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

“But you can’t escape from shadows or pain. You only find new ones. It’s better, I think, not to try to escape them at all but to accept that they will be there, and to remember that good things happen, too, even if you can’t always see them.”
― Christina Henry, Looking Glass

“Interpersonal neurobiology asks us to place no boundaries on where and how it might illuminate our world.

It is possible that every moment has the potential to be therapeutic in some way.”
― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

“Every instinct I once relied on for survival now feels misplaced. Cumbersome. Like an old key that no longer fits the lock.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind

“Healing is messy in a weird way that makes you think there is no progress”
― Sarah Abdoun

“For many of us, we have been indoctrinated to take on the shadows around us, telling stories like: We can do this. We are strong. Everyone else is fine now, so it’s okay. I will take this rather that confront it. I will live in this story because if I don’t all hell will break loose. In my experience, sometimes stories that serve as protective vessels for containing some kind of hell have been forged and are sustained in some kind of hell.”
― Vanya Leilani, The Flesh and the Fruit: Remembering Eve and the Power of Creative Transgression

“Pain raised me. Purpose saved me. And now my story might save somebody else.”
― Solomon David, Nobody’s Son, Beaten but Unbroken

“Behind every guarded heart is a story waiting to be understood. I write the ones that finally get their chance.”
― Lee Emery, Damaged Love

“Healing isn’t about forgetting the pain. It’s about remembering your worth.”
― Lina Bloom

“Boundaries aren’t walls. They are the doors you build to protect your peace”
― Lina Bloom

“Sometimes leaving is the bravest form of self-love”
― Lina Bloom

“Your heart isn’t hard — it’s just healing from what tried to break it”
― Lina Bloom

“The moment you choose yourself, your whole life starts choosing you back”
― Lina bloom

“You didn’t lose your worth — you just stopped giving discounts to people who never deserved access to your heart.”
― Lina Bloom

“You don’t heal by going back to what broke you. You heal by choosing yourself over the pain.”
― Lina Bloom

“She didn’t leave because she stopped loving him. She left because she finally remembered herself.”
― Lina Bloom

“A woman becomes unstoppable the moment she realizes she deserves more than almost love.”
― Lina Bloom

“Your shadows are unpolished gems that, when brought into the light, turn into majestic strengths.”
― Dusah Wiseman

“Shadow work then becomes the act of diving into the depths of who you are to discover which messages have been begging for your attention. When you become aware of these things, you can then alchemize them for your betterment instead of your demise.”
― Dusah Wiseman, Dear Cycle Breaker: Wisdom and Practical Magic for Reclaiming the Wild Divine Feminine

“Healing begins the moment you stop waiting for someone to become who they already showed you they are not.”
― Lina Bloom

“For those who lived through childhood sexual abuse and later found themselves repeating painful patterns in adulthood, We Were a Nice Normal Family offers clarity, understanding, and reassurance—you are not alone. Through research, psychological insight, and lived experience, it explores how Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) shapes adult relationships and emotional responses.”
― Patricia A. Grenelle PsyD

“She learned that survival wasn’t about escaping the fire—only about choosing what you carried out of it.”
― Twyzzted Fynn, Smoke & Bone: A Reckoning Carved in blood

“Sometimes the healing begins the moment you finally admit you deserve more than confusion.”
― Lina Bloom, "She Chose Herself: A Healing Journey After a Breakup: A Healing Journey After a Breakup

“Clarity doesn’t come from waiting to be chosen.
It comes the moment you choose yourself.”
― Lina Bloom, "She Chose Herself: A Healing Journey After a Breakup: A Healing Journey After a Breakup

“To tell your story responsibly is to acknowledge its complexity, it's to recognise that while you have a right to your truth, others have their truth too.”
― Darren McGarvey, Trauma Industrial Complex: How Oversharing Became a Product in a Digital World

“When the world around you comes in and hits, or activates, your stored patterns, you can no longer observe reality objectively. Your consciousness gets drawn into the activated samskaras, and everything becomes distorted.”
― Michael A. Singer, Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament

“I believe facing the darkness is one of the most powerful ways to overcome the pain. Healing begins when you can finally name what hurts, and stop running from the darkness inside you.”
― Rosella Tran, The Storm Is In The Mind, Not In You: Release Emotional Distress Step By Step