Asa Don Brown · 152 pages
Rating: (42 votes)
“Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...”
“Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.”
“Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework...”
“Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.”
“Trauma can have a masking effect.”
“Worldview is often confused with perception; rather, it is our perception that influences our worldview.”
“Traumatic experiences in early childhood may interfere with the child's ability to securely attach.”
“Attachment. A secure attachment is the ability to bond; to develop a secure and safe base; an unbreakable or perceivable inability to shatter to bond between primary parental caregiver(s) and child; a quest for familiarity; an unspoken language and knowledge that a caregiver will be a permanent fixture.”
“Resiliency is the body's internal response to a stressful situation.”
“Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory...”
“A child's attachment process begins within the first year of life...”
“There is no debating that the effects of trauma experienced in childhood may have grave consequences.”
“Survivors of trauma may have difficulty initiating relationships ...”
“A secure attachment is the ability to bond; to develop a secure and safe base...”
“Perception and worldview are one's summary of life.”
“A child's temperament appears to play another significant role in the child's own perceptions and worldview.”
“Children who are resilient often have an appearance of a Teflon coating: nothing seems to faze these children.”
“Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all.”
“Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.”
“My traumatic experience was life changing”
“Perception is a vice with which each person is capable of perceiving his or her reality.”
“Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.”
“When Joseph Conrad saw how Europeans behaved in Congo in 1890, he described them as “reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage…To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.” More than a hundred years later, not much has changed.”
“As long as he is around, I don't fit into your life." - Nathan”
“Just remember this. It’s the way we deal with what Fate hands us that defines who we are.”
“Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person has made a commitment to be loving whether or not the loving feeling is present. ...Conversely, it is not only possible but necessary for a loving person to avoid acting on feelings of love.”
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