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

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

“Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.”

“One of the paradoxical and transformative aspects of implicit traumatic memory is that once it is accessed in a resourced way (through the felt sense), it, by its very nature, changes. Out of the shattered fragments of her deeply injured psyche, Jody discovered and nurtured a nascent, emergent self. From the ashes of the frantically activated, hypervigilant, frozen, traumatized girl of twenty-five years ago, Jody began to reorient to a new, less threatening world. Gradually she shaped into a more fluid, resilient, woman, coming to terms with the felt capacity to fiercely defend herself when necessary, and to surrender in quiet ecstasy.”