The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.

The single most important issue for traumatized people is to find a sense of safety in their own bodies.

People have a range of capacities to deal with overwhelming experience. Some people, some kids particularly, are able to disappear into a fantasy world, to dissociate, to pretend like it isnt happening, and are able to go on with their lives. And sometimes it comes back to haunt them.