Bruce D. Perry Quotes
The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.
Relationships matter: the currency for systemic change was trust, and trust comes through forming healthy working relationships. People, not programs, change people.
The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.
It is the rare and strong person that can carry their trauma without having it spill into the next generation.
Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity ad well.
We ignore the emotional needs of young children at our peril.