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💊 Healing
“The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness”
Healing trauma requires bringing what was banished back into conscious awareness.
“Recovery can take place only within the context of relationships it cannot occur in isolation”
— Judith Herman
“Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community and recovery requires rebuilding those bonds”
“The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma and healing resolves it”
“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”
— Rumi
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.”
— Publilius Syrus
“Love cures people — both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
— Karl Menninger
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.”
— Sophocles
“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”
— William Shakespeare
“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”
— Hubert H. Humphrey
“Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
