Bullying and other trauma can deeply impact us. How can we recover?

“It’s really hard to be hated on when you don’t know who you are yet.” Millie Bobby Brown

“I like to behave like an actor or how I thought an actor was supposed to be and that apparently provoked a lot of people into hitting me." Robert Pattinson

“I had some terrible, abusive experiences in the dark as a child. And I became afraid of the dark until I was 28 years old…I found EMDR therapy very effective…it truly removed the emotion that was linked to the traumatic memory or thought process.” Jameela Jamil

Bullying was labeled an “Adverse Childhood Experience” (ACE) by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2017. Cyberbullying Research Center

Adverse Childhood Experiences "can give us the message that I am not okay." Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Therapy “can help you reconnect to or to build your emotional resilience so you can process and heal from childhood bullying.” Psychotherapist Mihaela Ivan Holtz

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