3 Quotes & Sayings By Susan Pease Banitt

Susan Pease Banitt was born in an early 1900s house that sits on the National Register of Historic Places in the charmingly rural neighborhood of Hiawassee, Georgia. Susan's love for writing began early in life, leading her to write stories and poems as well as participate in yearbook publications at the local high school. She graduated from Georgia Southern University with a B.A. in English, following which she took time off to raise her two children before returning to school to earn a Masters Degree in Library Science Read more

She currently lives with her husband and two dogs on a small farm outside of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions. Susan Pease Banitt
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Traumatic events, by definition, overwhelm our ability to cope. When the mind becomes flooded with emotion, a circuit breaker is thrown that allows us to survive the experience fairly intact, that is, without becoming psychotic or frying out one of the brain centers. The cost of this blown circuit is emotion frozen within the body. In other words, we often unconsciously stop feeling our trauma partway into it, like a movie that is still going after the sound has been turned off. We cannot heal until we move fully through that trauma, including all the feelings of the event. Susan Pease Banitt