Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive. When someone enters the pain and hears the screams healing can begin.

Danielle Bernock

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Winston Churchill

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Before you can lie to another, you must first lie to yourself.

Accountability means to say what you do, do what you say.

I have the opportunity once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs.

William Arthur Ward

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