#TraumaIndustrialComplex by Darren McGarvey
#FavouriteSentences
"Just as an unjust society inflicts suffering by forcing people to hide who they truly are, using shame & bigotry as a weapon, we may also collaborate in our own quiet torture -- choosing to suppress truths about our nature."
#TraumaIndustrialComplex by Darren McGarvey
#FavouriteSentences
"It is sobering to think of all the other Grannies, mothers, & women like her—women with the capacity for brilliance—who were quietly stifled by the world they were born into."
I love how this story made me reflect.
#TraumaIndustrialComplex by Darren McGarvey
#FavouriteSentences
"He refused to feed the drama, which in turn, began to break its power over me."
Refusing to feed the drama. A powerful strategy for managing Life.
Please join us on 14 May to hear Darren talk about it himself.
#TraumaIndustrialComplex by Darren McGarvey
#FavouriteSentences
"By now, if I’ve done my job, facilitators, consumers & storytellers alike should feel a bit uncomfortable about their entanglemnt with the TIComplex."
Discomforting questions underpin Darren's new book. I welcome that.
#MoralChoices
#TraumaIndustrialComplex by Darren McGarvey
#FavouriteSentences
"A memory: I am crying at the front door of a nursery as my favourite teacher explains she is leaving. I don’t want her to go."
Our culture does not think of the emotional loss brought into children's lives by our early years system.
#TraumaIndustrialComplex by Darren McGarvey
#FavouriteSentences
"What I need to know, before anything else can happen, is that I am safe and secure."
If Darren, an adult, needs to know this now, in his adulthood, how much more do children need to know this in their childhood?
#TraumaIndustrialComplex by Darren McGarvey
#FavouriteSentences
"This book is an invitation to get radically honest with ourselves -- to hold our own narratives up to the light & ask: Is this story true? Not, is it comforting?"
#TraumaIndustrialComplex by Darren McGarvey
#FavouriteSentences
"Trauma has redefined how we tell our stories, how we seek validation, and how we make sense of suffering."
I love that in his very first paragraph, Darren has focused us on an uncomfortable insight: Suffering.
