So to all boys and girls out there... you gotta listen to your momma at all times! When she say they're not your friends, don't just stay away from them, ignore them! 💯🗣💯 #justiceforshanquellarobinson#shanquellarobinson
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
One of the things that pains me is we have so tragically underestimated the trauma, the hardship we create in this country when we treat people unfairly, when we incarcerate them unfairly, when we condemn them unfairly.
-Bryan Stevenson
#Trauma
“Feeling out of control, survivors of trauma often begin to fear that they are damaged to the core and beyond redemption.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk
#Healing#Trauma#TranscendingTrauma
“The greatest hope for traumatized, abused, and neglected children is to know they are seen and known and they learn to regulate themselves, and where they can develop a sense of agency.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk
#Healing#Trauma#TranscendingTrauma
“Being traumatized is not just an issue of being stuck in the past; it is just as much a problem of not being fully alive in the present.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk
#Healing#Trauma#TranscendingTrauma
“The great challenge is finding ways to reset their physiology, so that their survival mechanisms stop working against them.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk
#Healing#Trauma#TranscendingTrauma
"The body keeps the score: If trauma is encoded in heartbreaking and gut-wrenching sensations, then our first priority is to help people move out of fight-or-flight states, reorganize their perception of danger, and manage relationships.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk
“People can learn to control and change their behavior, but only if they feel safe enough to experiment with new solutions."
― Bessel A. van der Kolk
#Healing#Trauma#TranscendingTrauma
“We deliberately tried to collect just isolated fragments of their experience—particular images, sounds, and feelings—rather than the entire story, because that is how trauma is experienced.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk
#Healing#Trauma#TranscendingTrauma
“When you activate your gut feelings and listen to your heartbreak—when you follow the interoceptive pathways to your innermost recesses—things begin to change.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk
#Healing#Trauma#TranscendingTrauma