Perception is a vice with which each person is capable of perceiving his or her reality.

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.

Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all.

Children who are resilient often have an appearance of a Teflon coating: nothing seems to faze these children.

Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.

Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...

Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework...

Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory...

Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.

My traumatic experience was life changing

You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.

It was happening. At least in that little section of the salon, women were connecting and doing what women knew how to do, show compassion, nurturing—helping someone fit in.

My mom's Puerto Rican. That's why I'm so lively and colorful.

It's not supposed to be easy. It's not supposed to be driving down the interstate.

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less.

I've learned that if you want people to join in any kind of conservation effort, you have to help them to care with their hearts, not just their heads.

If you are unable to meditate, chant your mantra or sing bhajans.

This is an exciting world. It is cram packed with opportunity. Great moments await around every corner.