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“How do you keep going?" asked Tiny Dragon.
"Sometimes," said Big Panda, "Even the smallest step is better than no step.”
― Big Panda & Tiny Dragon
"Sometimes," said Big Panda, "Even the smallest step is better than no step.”
― Big Panda & Tiny Dragon
“Some people are like candles.
They burn themselves out
to create light for others.”
― Big Panda and Tiny Dragon (Hardcover)
They burn themselves out
to create light for others.”
― Big Panda and Tiny Dragon (Hardcover)
“Whether people praise you or criticize you, try to accept it gracefully. It takes all kinds of conditions to create a strong tree.”
― Big Panda & Tiny Dragon
― Big Panda & Tiny Dragon
“I think her precocious intellectual development is what happens to bright and sensitive kids when the emotional environment isn't able to hold them. They develop this very powerful intellect that holds them instead.”
― Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind
― Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind
“I have a lot of grief over being robbed of my early life and so I have a lot of anger towards people who have had good childhoods, it’s a privilege. I’m not sure why we don’t understand this. Especially when the difference between having a good childhood and not has dangerous long term side effects.
Infants whose caregivers were too stressed for whatever reason to give them the necessary attunement contact will grow up with a chronic tendency to feel alone with their emotions. To have a sense rightly or wrongly that no one can share how they feel, that no one can understand.
Despite the odds against us, children of neglect are forced to live normal lives. We are expected to get on with it. If we speak about our pain we become burdens or worse victims who won’t shut up.”
― Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind
Infants whose caregivers were too stressed for whatever reason to give them the necessary attunement contact will grow up with a chronic tendency to feel alone with their emotions. To have a sense rightly or wrongly that no one can share how they feel, that no one can understand.
Despite the odds against us, children of neglect are forced to live normal lives. We are expected to get on with it. If we speak about our pain we become burdens or worse victims who won’t shut up.”
― Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind
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