you are not an athlete because of what you can do, but because of who you are: a team player, someone who never quits, who strives to be his personal best, and who believes in fair play.
Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal.
I believe that we belittle survivors by assuming that they will fail.
EMDR is a bizarre and wondrous treatment and anybody who first hears about it, myself included, thinks this is pretty hokey and strange. It's something invented by Francine Shapiro who found that, if...
Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.
There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.
A few years ago I heard Jerome Kagan, a distinguished emeritus professor of child psychology at Harvard, say to the Dalai Lama that for every act of cruelty in this world there are hundreds of small a...
This last best luck of all: that earth should gape for me when my great deeds were ended.
Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers...
We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from blueprints drawn up in early childhood. This is the problem.
Where would we be without our painful childhoods?
Asshole Proximity Disorder
If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.
When it comes to mental illness most of the diagnoses are similar or the same yet they can never display how we individually go through our pain.
Bitter truths have the power to expect backups if they are shared at all.
Bitter truths have the need to expect backups if they are shared at all.
As a deep wound comes to the surface, things can appear worse for a time.
The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.
One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.
Acknowledgement of the prevalence and impact of trauma challenges psychological theories that localize dysfunction within the individual while ignoring the contribution of social forces on adjustment...
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