The Girl in the Green Dress Quotes

“In 2021 the respected journal Nature Medicine published a peer-reviewed, placebo-controlled trial on psychedelic assisted treatment of trauma. The results were impressive. With just three, medically supervised sessions using MDMA, 67 per cent no longer had PTSD – more than double the placebo group. There was no increased risk of abuse and, crucially, those with dissociation responded as well as those without.3 Given the special skills otherwise required to navigate dissociation, this latter finding was a big deal. There are currently over a hundred psychedelic-assisted therapy trials being conducted worldwide. It would appear that these drugs allow a resetting of a part of the brain known as the ‘Default Mode Network’ (DMN) that otherwise holds on to recurring, distressing thoughts – especially around guilt and shame. During REM/dreaming sleep the DMN fires up, but the normal resetting process fails with overwhelming trauma.”
― Jeni Haynes, The Girl in the Green Dress

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”
― Jeni Haynes, The Girl in the Green Dress

“It is very difficult to author a good life when your unconscious mind is continually hijacking your actions in the service of keeping you safe.”
― Jeni Haynes, The Girl in the Green Dress

“It is the presence of protective amnestic barriers which form in response to the abuse, that make up the essence of DID.”
― Jeni Haynes, The Girl in the Green Dress

“There’s no need to take away his denial, reality will do that soon enough, it will allow him to enjoy some of the precious time he has left.”
― Jeni Haynes, The Girl in the Green Dress

“We love children as human beings, not human doings”
― Jeni Haynes, The Girl in the Green Dress

“Of all these therapies the standout for me has been Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy.”
― Jeni Haynes, The Girl in the Green Dress

“Small may be safer but safe equals sad over time. Safe is dangerous to living fully.”
― Jeni Haynes, The Girl in the Green Dress

“I didn't know that you're only supposed to have one personality. I didn't realise that having lots of voices in your head was abnormal. But you are protecting yourself. You are protecting your soul, and that's what I did.”
― Jeni Haynes, The Girl in the Green Dress

“I am the sum of my parts, and my parts are absolutely phenomenal.”
― Jeni Haynes, The Girl in the Green Dress

“But what of the next victim? What of the ‘unknown children’? Do we not have a moral responsibility to try to stop these horrific criminals? Would we let them off if they had attempted to kill someone? Would we let them off if the crime was different? Could I live with myself if I had let Dad hurt another child? No, I really couldn’t.”
― Jeni Haynes, The Girl in the Green Dress