Embarking on a journey of trauma recovery requires courage, determination, strength, and vulnerability. While you may have the support of a trauma therapist, incorporating quotes for trauma recovery is a simple yet powerful way to aid your healing journey at home.
In curating this collection of the best trauma quotes for recovery, the question arose: “Who better to provide you with a selection of trauma-related quotes than trauma therapists?” Hailing from various corners of the globe, these incredible trauma-informed professionals not only possess the expertise to guide others through their trauma recovery but often carry their own personal narratives of lived trauma experience, healing, and post-traumatic growth.
For insights on how to effectively use quotes to support your healing journey, check out another recent Trauma Warriors blog post, 21 Practices Using Quotes for Self-Discovery and Recovery.
I trust that you will discover support through this curated collection of trauma quotes from these dedicated therapists.
Wisdom from the Therapy Room: 37 Therapists Share Quotes for Trauma Recovery
She will never be the same person she was before the traumatic events in her life, but out of her grief, she can forge a new identity that neither denies her past nor allows it to define her entirely. – Judith Herman
Shared by Karen Bieman. Trauma Therapist at Trauma Warriors. Registered Clinical Counsellor Online & Melbourne . Connect with Karen on Facebook
Someone who drowns in 7 feet of water is just as dead as someone who drowns in 20 feet of water. Stop comparing traumas, stop belittling yours or anyone else’s trauma because it wasn’t ‘as bad’ as someone else’s. This isn’t a competition, we all deserve support and recovery.
– Casey Rose
Shared by Crystal Hardstaff. Online Counselling Australia-wide & Gold Coast, QLD. Connect with Crystal on Instagram.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
– The Dalai Lama
Shared by Tricia Ang. Registered Clinical Counsellor, Art Therapist and Body-Oriented Psychotherapist in Coffs Harbour, Online. Connect with Tricia via her website.
Trauma is perhaps the most avoided, ignored, belittled, denied, misunderstood, and untreated cause of human suffering.
– Peter Levine
Shared by Carmel Catanuto. Gestalt psychotherapist in Oatley, Sydney. Connect with Carmel on Instagram.
Self-assaulting shame so easily moonlights as personal responsibility.
– Gabor Mate
Shared by Robyn Bean. Certified Practising Counsellor Online in Brisbane, Australia. Connect with Robyn on Facebook.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
– Joseph Campbell
Shared by Laura Reagan. LCSW-C in Annapolis, Maryland. Connect with Laura and on Trauma & Therapy Chat Instagram.
Trauma doesn’t disappear when you ignore it.
– Stephanie M. Hutchins
Shared by Melanie Foulkes. Chronic Illness & Mental Health Counsellor Online, Australia. Connect with Melanie on Instagram.
Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.
– Bell Hooks
Shared by Lauren Messina. Counselling in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Connect with Lauren on Instagram.
Perhaps we should learn to love ourselves so loudly, it silences our insecurities.
– Louise Kaufmann
Shared by June Lambourne. Counselling in Ipswich Qld & Online Australia Wide. Connect with June on Instagram.
The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.
– Barbara DeAngelis
Shared by Jacob Mottram, Online (Adelaide). Connect with Jacob on Instagram.
Parents’ words become their children’s inner voices.
– Emily McIntire
Shared by Kellie Sheldon. EMDR, Trauma & Sex Therapist Online & in Perth. Connect with Kellie via her website.
Shame dies when stories are told in safe places.
– Ann VosKamp
Shared by Miranda Egan. Trauma Therapist at Trauma Warriors. Counsellor & Psychotherapist on the Sunshine Coast. Connect with Miranda on Instagram.
Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.
– Peter A. Levine
Shared by Andi Szasz. Trauma Therapist at Trauma Warriors. Psychotherapist & Clinical Supervisor in Sydney Australia. Connect with Andi on Instagram.
What you resist, persists.
– Carl Jung
Shared by Heather Olsson. LCPC in Naperville, Illinois. Connect with Heather on Facebook.
Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence.
– Peter A. Levine
Shared by Daniela MacAulay. Trauma Therapist at Trauma Warriors. Gestalt Therapist on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. Connect with Daniela on Instagram.
Nonverbal memories are more important than verbal memories.
– Dr Janina Fisher
Shared by Minky van der Walt, Clinical Supervision, Online and Face to Face Counselling in Nipaluna/Hobart. Connect with Minky on Instagram.
Trauma is when we are not seen and known.
– Bessel van der Kolk
Shared by Roohi Ahmad. Counselling in Melbourne and Online Australia-wide. Connect with Roohi on Facebook.
Between stimulus and response there is a space….In this space is our power to choose our response. In our response, lies our growth and our freedom.
– Viktor Frankl
Shared by Sharlene Warren. Counselling Online and the Gold Coast. Connect with Sharlene on Facebook.
People often mistake numbness for nothingness; but numbness is not the absence of feelings, it’s a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings.
– Lori Gottlieb
Shared by Sam Sellers: Counselling in Goulburn, NSW and Online Aus/NZ wide. Connect with Sam on Instagram.
Trauma is not what happens to you. It is what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you … It is not the blow on the head, but the concussion I get.
– Gabor Maté
Shared by Lucy Orton: Online IFS Therapy Practitioner, Australia. Connect with Lucy on Instagram.
No matter how much pain and dysfunction you have to deal with in your life, every part of your psyche is doing its best to help you.
– Jay Earley
Shared by Jodie Gale. Trauma Therapist at Trauma Warriors. Registered Clinical Psychotherapist on Gayamaygal and Garrigal Country (Northern Beaches, Sydney) and Online. Connect with Jodie on Instagram.
It takes enormous trust and courage to allow yourself to remember.
– Bessel Van Der Kolk
Shared by Rachael Ranney. LMFT in Claremont, CA. Connect with Rachael on Instagram.
One of the hardest things was learning I was worth recovery.”
– Demi Lovato
Shared by Gareth Howell. Counsellor in Redlands/South Brisbane + Online. Connect with Gareth on LinkedIn.
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
– Carl Rogers
Shared by Nicky Angelone: Registered Clinical Counsellor Online and in Dingley, Melbourne. Connect with Nicky on Instagram.
That is, to be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.
– Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
Shared by Linda Tuxford-Adams. Counsellor at Forrest Beach and FNQ-Online only. Connect with Linda on Facebook.
The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves.
– Bessel van der Kolk
Shared by Marvel C. Adeyemi. Counsellor and Mental Health Social Worker, Melbourne, Australia. Connect with Marvel on Facebook.
We will trigger some and inspire others. Both are medicine.
– Unknown
Shared by Sam Howard-van Beek. Counsellor on Turrbal, Yuggera and Jinibarra Country. Connect with Sam on Facebook.
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
– John Muir
Shared by Nicole Logue. Relationship Therapist and Gestalt Psychotherapist in Perth. Connect with Nicole via her website.
You’re so mean when you talk about yourself. You were wrong. Change the voices in your head. Make them like you instead.
– Pink, Max Martin, Shellback
Shared by Kate Hollingsworth. Counsellor and Mental Health Social Worker in Glebe, Sydney. Connect with Kate via her website.
I can be with my experience with all its variety and surface contradictions. I can formulate myself out of this experience instead of trying to impose a formulation of myself upon this experience, which would prevent my awareness of those elements that don’t fit.
– Carl Rogers
Shared by Stephanie Mitchell. Counsellor and IFS Therapist in Morphett Vale, South Australia. Connect with Stephanie on YouTube.
Hope knows the sun has risen even when the clouds cover every ray of light.
Shared by Chele Yntema. Young Carer Counsellor, Australia . Connect with Chele on Instagram.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-Carl Jung
Shared by Tracey Crowe. Registered Clinical Psychotherapist in Freshwater, Sydney. Connect with Tracey on Instagram.
Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive. When someone enters the pain and hears the screams, healing can begin.
– Danielle Bernock
Shared by Claire Palmer. Counsellor in Norwich, UK or Online. Connect with Claire on Facebook.
Your playing small does not serve the world… And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
– Marianne Williamson
Shared by Alva Huang. Counsellor in Geelong, Victoria, Australia + Online. Connect with Alva on Facebook.
I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.
– Hafiz of Shiraz
Shared by Suzannah Stanford. Psychotherapist and Eco Anxiety Counsellor in Walyalup (Fremantle), on Whadjuk Nyoongar Country, Western Australia. Connect with Suzannah on Instagram.
Bad things happen and they fuck you up.
– Prof. John Read
Shared by Melody Edwardson. Counsellor in Sunnybank Brisbane + Online. Connect with Melody on Facebook.
Spiritual trauma is like someone handing you an inner critic and telling you it’s the voice of God.
– Dr Hillary McBride.
Shared by Jane Kennedy. Counselling Online in Australia & New Zealand. Connect with Jane on Instagram.
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