For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
Relationships matter: the currency for systemic change was trust, and trust comes through forming healthy working relationships. People, not programs, change people. — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation. — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
“Across generations, wariness of new individuals, groups, and ideas was built into the circuits of the human brain's alarm response because those who had… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
“When a baby gets hungry and cries his levels of stress hormones will move upward. But if Mom or Dad regularly comes to feed… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
More than 35 percent of the children exposed to a single traumatic event will develop serious mental health problems .. The real crisis of… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
It is the rare and strong person that can carry their trauma without having it spill into the next generation. — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
