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We learned from these Rorschach tests that traumatized people have a tendency to superimpose their trauma on everything around them
Trauma in it's early flashback tends to get superimposed onto many things.
“The idea of being in love, or wanting it, seemed conducive to pretense. Everyone pretended to be something they weren’t until someone uncovered it.”
― A Summer of Guiltless Sex
― A Summer of Guiltless Sex
“Wisely, Baldwin insisted that we are always more than our pain. Not only did he believe in our capacity to love, he felt black people were uniquely situated to risk loving because we had suffered.”
― Salvation: Black People and Love ― bell hooks' Incisive Cultural History on the Transformative Power of Love in African American Life
― Salvation: Black People and Love ― bell hooks' Incisive Cultural History on the Transformative Power of Love in African American Life
“Your crown has been bought and paid for. Put it on your head and wear it.”
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“All trauma is preverbal.”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“Isolating oneself into a narrowly defined victim group promotes a view of others as irrelevant at best and dangerous at worst, which eventually only leads to further alienation. Gangs, extremist political parties, and religious cults may provide solace, but they rarely foster the mental flexibility needed to be fully open to what life has to offer and as such cannot liberate their members from their traumas. Well-functioning people are able to accept individual differences and acknowledge the humanity of others.”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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