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There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

―Laurell K. Hamilton

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The human capacity for burden is like bamboo, far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

—Jodi Picoult

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It’s not logical. It’s biological.

—Stan Tatkin

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Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.

—Peter Levine

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Trauma is not what happened to you. It’s what happened inside you because of what happened.

—Dr. Gabor Mate

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and here you are living
despite it all

—rupi kaur

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I know where beauty lives
I've seen it once
I know the warmth she gives
The light that you could never see
It shines inside
You can't take that from me

—Madonna

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I’m still alive.

—Pearl Jam

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History, despite its wrenching pain
Cannot be unlived, but if faced
With courage, need not be lived again.

—Maya Angelo,
On the Pulse of Morning

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

—Jean-Paul Sartre

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The only way out is through.

—Robert Frost

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Live in fragments no longer.

—E.M. Forster

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Resource Friday

What is trauma?

My Grandmother’s Hands

The Body Keeps the Score

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors

Polyvagal flipchart: Understanding the science of safety

The Myth of Normal

In an Unspoken Voice

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

Nurturing Resilience

Trauma & Recovery

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog

The Body Remembers

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