Wayne

“It was a sacred, beautiful moment, one of the proudest of my life. As an adult I had learned to see my mother through a different lens—not as the mother who didn’t care for me, protect me, love me, or understand anything about me, but as a young girl, still just a child herself, scared, alone, and unequipped to be a loving parent. I’d forgiven my mother years earlier for not being the mother I needed, but she didn’t know that. And in our last moments together, I believe I was able to release her from the shame and the guilt of the past.”
― Bruce D. Perry, What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

“While a very young child may not understand the words used in language, they do sense the nonverbal parts of communication, like tone of voice. They can feel the tension and hostility in angry speech, and the exhaustion and despair of depressed language. And because the brain is growing so rapidly in the first years of life and creating thousands upon thousands of associations about how the world works, these early experiences have more impact on the infant and young child.”
― Bruce D. Perry, What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

“Very often, “what happened” takes years to reveal itself. It takes courage to confront our actions, peel back the layers of trauma in our lives, and expose the raw truth of our past. But this is where healing begins.”
― Bruce D. Perry, What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

“Belief has nothing to do with truth.”
― Percival Everett, James