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1 " Trauma has a way of overwhelming us. When we are threatened, our first response is fight, flight, or freeze. "
― Kenny Weiss , Your Journey To Success: How to Accept the Answers You Discover Along the Way
2 " Due to the trauma, we experience the fear of rejection, inadequacy, and/or the fear of powerlessness itself. "
― Kenny Weiss
3 " That is why, in general, positive thinking is not as important as learning to feel positively, because our thoughts about a situation are derived from what we are feeling. "
4 " No matter what kind of childhood we’ve had, nobody escapes trauma while growing up. "
5 " For those of us who haven’t been taught how to deal with our trauma, we get stuck living in the worst day ever. The intense feelings of those moments replay themselves throughout our life because, in an effort to heal, we unintentionally and proactively seek them out and re-inflict them upon ourselves. "
6 " No matter what kind of trauma we experienced as a child, we replay that loop through our choices of friends, hobbies, careers, and relationships. "
7 " Our brain and body become addicted to the feelings associated with our trauma and our worst day because they have been firing more than any other feeling. "
8 " When we become an expert in our trauma history and know how we self-victimize and drop into denial, we have an opportunity to create a new reality with a new neural pathway in our brain. "
9 " As noted, since we store our memories physically in our body, we are depositing our trauma physically in our body. "
10 " We deny, suppress, repress, and minimize our trauma to preserve our self-concept. By doing so, we set ourselves up for repeating the cycle again. "
11 " My trauma changed who I was as a person. "
12 " Trauma happens to us. When it does, our authentic self and power is taken from us. "
13 " Some people equate trauma to something big like war, death, extreme acts of violence, physical abuse, sexual abuse, or natural disasters. While those are all examples of trauma, trauma doesn’t have to be big like that. "
14 " Being controlling, being judgmental, or always having to be right are other ways that adults may inflict trauma on children. "
15 " But I understand why we don’t want to hear it—because right now, it is the only way we know how to overcome the trauma we suffered. We refuse to see the reality because we need the power we get from being the victim; it is the only coping skill we know. We can only do what we know. And that is precisely why I chose to write this book. It is time we face our denial and learn another way. "
16 " The fear and the excitement responses in our brains are exactly the same. "
17 " If you are not dealing with your emotions and the unresolved trauma trapped inside of your body, you are revictimizing yourself. Being sick and hurt is the single greatest way we gain power over others, because what happens when we get sick and hurt? Everyone comes to our rescue. "
18 " The true gut reaction is when we make a decision and we know in our gut it was the right thing to do. There is no negativity or fear of unknowns. We don’t question our decision. When it’s a trauma gut reaction, we know something doesn’t feel right. We make a decision based on that, but we second-guess ourselves. "
19 " Unaddressed trauma survives in a vacuum, fueling our thoughts and behaviors, so we inadvertently re-create the same feelings we had when we first experienced the trauma. We call this the Worst Day Cycle. "
20 " If our life isn’t where we want it, it’s because we have experienced an emotional marker that fires repeatedly and has created a system that is working against us. "
