101 Trauma-Informed Interventions Quotes

“Due to persistently high elevation of stress hormones, which causes a reduction in the size of the hippocampus, survivors are often less able to put things in context and/or make critical distinctions about what is and what is not threatening in the present. Without this necessary discernment, survivors become more and more impulsive and less and less inhibited. In effect, what survivors are left with is a constantly hyperaroused autonomic nervous system, an inability to distinguish past from present threat.”
― Linda Curran Bcpc Lpc Cacd Ccdpd, 101 Trauma-Informed Interventions: Activities, Exercises and Assignments to Move the Client and Therapy Forward

“Brain development studies have shown that a traumatized brain is impaired in its ability to focus on language or verbal content. Instead, it tends to focus on processing nonverbal danger cues—body movements, facial expressions, and tone of voice—as it searches for information about danger and threat.”
― Linda Curran Bcpc Lpc Cacd Ccdpd, 101 Trauma-Informed Interventions: Activities, Exercises and Assignments to Move the Client and Therapy Forward

“. . .If you ever, ever feel like you’re nothing you’re perfect to me. You’re so mean When you talk about yourself, you are wrong Change the voices in your head Make them like you instead. . . excerpted from “Perfect” by Pink”
― Linda Curran, 101 Trauma-Informed Interventions: Activities, Exercises and Assignments to Move the Client and Therapy Forward

“For a trauma survivor, yoga, when practiced with awareness of breath and sensation, can be a gentle way to begin to reoccupy her body. When living in a body feels safe again, yoga postures can be used therapeutically to hold and then release the trauma stored there. Often the emotional and physical releases happen without reference to the story, so the survivor is no longer trapped in the victim role.” ~Amy Weintraub”
― Linda Curran Bcpc Lpc Cacd Ccdpd, 101 Trauma-Informed Interventions: Activities, Exercises and Assignments to Move the Client and Therapy Forward

“Needs that do not get met in childhood become adult needs.”
― Linda Curran Bcpc Lpc Cacd Ccdpd, 101 Trauma-Informed Interventions: Activities, Exercises and Assignments to Move the Client and Therapy Forward

“What I’d like to say is that good trauma work is like very fine neurosurgery. It is extremely skilled work. And good intentions and warm feelings do not substitute for really becoming very good at what you do.”
― Linda Curran, 101 Trauma-Informed Interventions: Activities, Exercises and Assignments to Move the Client and Therapy Forward

“At that point, one of two things usually happens. Either we blame the client or we blame ourselves. The first gives rise to a terrible therapist; the second, a soon-to-be burned out, a.k.a. former, therapist.”
― Linda Curran, 101 Trauma-Informed Interventions: Activities, Exercises and Assignments to Move the Client and Therapy Forward