Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.

My generation has to deal with how to overcome a trauma, how to overcome destruction, and how to tell the truth to the next generation.

People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

There's a lot of black men running around with crazy trauma scars, and they should be going to therapy. They should be sitting down and talking to people. But they can't. If you've got the armor of being a man, and the armor of being a black man, that hyper-masculine thing can make those scars deeper.

I don't think I understood the full extent of the trauma experienced by people who churn through America's prisons until I began taking the time to listen to their stories.

In boxing, you've got CTE from head trauma constantly.

Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision, obscuring reality and challenging belief.

I'm still coping with my trauma, but coping by trying to find different ways to heal it rather than hide it.

They say that love is blind, but it's trauma that's blind. Love sees what is.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

I'm grounded in joy; I'm not grounded in the trauma anymore.

Everyone deals with trauma differently, and recovery is always a work in progress. But courage is contagious, and the more that people stand up and speak out against misogyny, the faster we can create the kind of world where we won't have to.

Every single one of us will have our life interrupted, whether it's by the ripcord of a diagnosis or some other kind of heartbreak or trauma that brings us to the floor. We need to find a way to live in the in-between place, managing whatever body and mind we currently have.

Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.

Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.

I think everyone's in their own trauma and fighting through something.

Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence.

For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned - take our post-traumatic growth - and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear.

The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.