The OCD clinician answered what the ex-cop couldn’t: silence is a trauma response, a form of fight, flight, freeze, fawn, and other strategies for
“Disappointments may be like paper cuts, but if those cuts are deep enough or if we accumulate them over a lifetime, they can leave us seriously wounded.”
― Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
― Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
“He wore knit ties on top of flannel shirts, like an executive who lived in a tree.”
― Ghost Lover: Stories
― Ghost Lover: Stories
“This is why we must view rest as the ultimate disruption of capitalism’s tricks and plans.”
― Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
― Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
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