8/5/13

thank you mark epstein:

Two quotes that I really value right NOW:
1. "In resisting trauma and in defending ourselves from feeling its full impact, we deprive ourselves of its truth."
2. "The willingness to face traumas — be they large, small, primitive or fresh — is the key to healing from them. They may never disappear in the way we think they should, but maybe they don’t need to. Trauma is an ineradicable aspect of life. We are human as a result of it, not in spite of it."
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