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It takes enormous trust and courage to allow yourself to remember.

— Bessel van der Kolk The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (2014)

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One thing is certain: Yelling at someone who is already out of control can only lead to further dysregulation.

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (2014)

A major challenge in recovering from trauma remains being able to achieve a state of total relaxation and safe surrender.

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (2014)

Scared animals return home, regardless of whether home is safe or frightening.

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (2014)

No matter how much insight and understanding we develop, the rational brain is basically impotent to talk the emotional brain out of its own reality.

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (2014)

The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves.

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (2014)

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

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Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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