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In her book, The Crown of Gilded Bone, Jennifer Armentrout says, “I think too much value is given to forgiveness when it’s easier to forgive but far harder to forget. That understanding and acceptance is far more important than forgiving someone.” This quote might be…

I have been on a roll reading for pleasure lately and I love finding affirming quotes like this in my fun reading. In Hailey Edward’s book Gray Witch, she reminds us, “No child should grow up believing they were unlovable, that parts of them ought…

I recently read Laini Taylor’s Strange the Dreamer and Muse of Nightmares, which were simply beautiful and had many insightful things to say about trauma. In the second book, she writes, “If something was simply unbearable, it put up a wall around it, or buried…

I love this quote from bell hooks, who was a Black American author and social activist who’s best known for her writings on feminism, race, and class. I believe the heart of justice in trauma work is also truth telling. So much of what is…

This past weekend I attended the Social Justice Summit put on by the Trauma Research Foundation. It was a powerful weekend and I found myself very moved by the practitioners who spoke and the container that was created for this experience. This quote comes from…

I’ve started reading Gabor Mate’s The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture and there is a lot of good info in there. Maté’ writes, “I will make the case that much of what passes for normal in our society, is…