Triggers are like little psychic explosions that crash through avoidance and bring the dissociated, avoided trauma suddenly, unexpectedly, back into consciousness.

Carolyn Spring

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The angry people are those people who are most afraid.

Dr. Robert Anthony

There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible bodycasts.

True suffering is being trapped in your own head.

Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.

Peter A. Levine

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

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