Dancing with a Porcupine Quotes

“My sense of being a good parent came from loving my child well, despite his response. My success was based on my choices, which I could control, rather than his behaviors, which I could not.”
― Jennie Lynn Owens, Dancing with a Porcupine: Parenting wounded children without losing your self

“The scan of the child who had been through trauma looked like Swiss cheese. Almost all of their brain activity occurs in the “fight-flight-or-freeze” part of the brain, with little activity in the cerebral cortex — the part of the brain that allows us to think and process rationally.”
― Jennie Lynn Owens, Dancing with a Porcupine: Parenting wounded children without losing your self