We all thought Cathy was okay, but she was not. I asked myself what I could have done differently, or what I would do now if a friend were in an unspeakable situation like that. I’ve learned to listen – and listen long and hard.

“Another possible reason why writing about trauma might be helpful is that it affords us the ability to reprocess our experience from a safe place, enabling us to experience a type of mastery and control over the trauma, and overcome the sense of helplessness.”

In an 2018 article from Harper's Bazaar, Jennifer Wright quotes Margaret Atwood, "Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them." In the article, Jennifer notes the Huffington Post article, "Who Is Killing American Women? Their Husbands And Boyfriends, CDC Confirms."

“Triggers are like little psychic explosions that crash through avoidance and bring the dissociated, avoided trauma suddenly, unexpectedly, back into consciousness.”― Carolyn Spring, trauma survivor, author, therapist