This was very hopeful for people who have experienced childhood trauma 🤍

Some lines that stuck out to me:

- “But, you know, it’s okay to have some things you never get over.” 

- How much pleasure had I missed because I was too in my head to pay attention? 

- it’s clear how much my dissociation has stolen from me.

- Can a mentally ill woman ever be trusted with her own story? 

- Because expressing the kindness to yourself that you deserve often reminds you of the kindness you didn’t get. 

- Trauma isn’t just the sadness that comes from being beaten, or neglected, or insulted. That’s just one layer of it. Trauma also is mourning the childhood you could have had. 

- Instead you have to pull up your bootstraps and solve the painful puzzle of your life by yourself. What other choice do you have? Nobody else is going to solve it for you. 

- But the sadness of a lost childhood feels like yearning, impossible desire. It feels like a hollow, insatiable hunger. 

- Emotional pain is just as bad at physical pain. 

- “The essence of what trauma does to a person is it makes them feel like they don’t deserve love.”