"Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step."
Mariska Hargitay
"Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life."
Akshay Dubey
"Healing occurs as we express ourselves genuinely. In expressing how it was and is, we make ourselves the witness — one who sees rather than one who has merely been tossed about by passing events."
Arthur Egendorf, Ph.D., Healing from the War: Trauma and Transformation after Vietnam.
"There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer."
Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees
"Words seemed to make it visible. But, speaking, even when it embarrassed me, also slowly freed me for the shame I felt. The more I struggled to speak, the less power the rape, and its aftermath, seemed to have over me."
Nancy Raine, After Silence: Rape and My Journey Back, 1998
"When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone."
Fiona Apple
"Your trauma is not who you are. It is something that was done to you or happened to you."
