Good Inside

by Becky Kennedy

Children who are left alone with intense distress often rely on one of two coping mechanisms: self-doubt and self-blame.

Repair can happen ten minutes after a blowup, ten days later, or ten years later. Never ever doubt the power of repair—every time you go back to your child, you allow him to rewire, to rewrite the ending of the story so it concludes in connection and understanding, rather than aloneness and fear.

Anxiety is the intolerance of discomfort.