Oprah Winfrey

And I understood that “hushing my mouth” or silence was the only way to ensure a quick end to punishment and pain.

Despite the myriad circumstances into which we’re born, we come into the world with an innate sense of wholeness. We don’t begin our lives by asking: Am I enough? Am I worthy? Am I deserving or lovable?

When you find an addiction, do not be ashamed. Be joyful. You have found something that you have come to this Earth to heal. When you confront and heal an addiction, you are doing the deepest spiritual work that you can do on this Earth.”

trauma. We’ve already mentioned the fight-or-flight response. The term was coined in 1915 by the pioneering stress researcher Walter B. Cannon. He used the phrase to describe the acute stress response to a perceived threat, and the physiological changes that go along with it. We will call this the arousal response.

Oprah: And this is why we need trauma-informed systems. And why we need to move away from “What is wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?”

despair that runs through nearly all destructive behavior is a deeply rooted feeling of unworthiness

often we block our blessings because we don’t, at our core, feel that we’re enough.

that a trauma has three key aspects—the event, the experience, and the effects.

three E’s” definition of trauma, which articulates what we just talked about: that a trauma has three key aspects—the event, the experience, and the effects.

vulnerability, the developmental stage at which the traumatic events occurred, history
of your previous trauma, your family’s history of trauma, and the buffering capacity of healthy relationships, family, and community.