What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

by Bruce D. Perry

The sense of self informs every relationship or decision we make as we move through life. And when children don’t feel respected by the decisions of their parents, their beliefs about how they are valued are crushed.

We elicit from the world what we project into the world; but what you project is based upon what happened to you as a child.

fighting or fleeing won’t protect you, but “disappearing” might.