John Bradshaw Quotes

My relationship was always abusive, so I chose to not socialise much. People who knew me knew that what pain I was going through.

People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting.

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

My mom got shot. My dad got shot. Some of the craziest stuff. All that happened to me.

For some people, it is easier to command a nation, to send thousands to their deaths in unnecessary wars, to separate children from their families and inflict terrible suffering, than to process their own trauma and pain.

The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

I know some people that have gone through serious struggles. People that were close to me, and I've seen some terrible things about people who lose it. So I think that type of pain is something that's human and that, actually, can help us look at ourselves a little bit.

It takes an extraordinary toll on me to re-live my experiences, the horrors of my past and the pain I had to endure. And yet, I believe remembering is the only way to promote healing, to promote awareness and accountability.

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.

Trauma creates one of four types of people: victims, rescuers, or perps - and if you're really lucky and really strong and very willing and brave, survivors.

I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.

Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.

Of course I get hurt.

I probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt.

There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost my dad when I was 14 and to violence.

In 'The Darkest Minds,' Zu's trauma manifests in her choosing to remain silent. It's her one small way she can feel in control of her otherwise uncontrollable situation.

So many people have been abused. It's not rare; it's a very common human experience, and we survive.

I came from a tough childhood. There was a lot of stuff that I'd actually forgotten or that I'd blocked or hidden away until I started addressing it.

Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.