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"Understanding the sources of our pain can be the first step towards healing""Children need the emotional presence of their caregivers to thrive""Without the ability to say no, human beings cannot say yes""Healing requires recognizing the pain that needs to be healed""The essence of emotional trauma is a disconnection from the self""It takes real courage to be vulnerable and open to love""Nature designed us to need nourishing relationships to survive""A child’s brain needs healthy experiences to develop properly""The modern mind is overstimulated and the modern body is understimulated and overfed""The primary events of trauma rarely end when the traumatic experience itself ends""The very same brain centers that interpret and process emotional pain are the ones that interpret and process physical pain""Children don’t get traumatized because they get hurt; children get traumatized because they’re alone with the hurt""Authenticity is, at its heart, the recognition of what you truly need""The more we stress, the more likely we are to be hung up on behaviors that relieve stress in the short term""We don’t get to witness who we might have been if trauma hadn’t shaped us this way""We have an epidemic of stresses in the world that keeps people from being who they really are""The circuitry of addiction runs parallel to the circuitry of love""Contrary to what is often taught in schools, mental health is not merely about the absence of disease""The deepest psychological wounds are hidden from the conscious mind""Addiction is not a choice that anybody makes, it’s a response to pain"