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“The only thing that speaks the language of trauma is connection, and what is broken in relationship has to be healed in relationship.”

*I may just cry my way through this one

I’m so glad they have a chapter about sensory issues. My little brother (who I’m reading this book for) has sensory issues and this really helps.

I think this book has a lot of really valuable information explained in an easy to understand way. Technically this book is overdue (I know, I know 😣) but I think someday I’ll purchase a copy for myself and my family.

how does anyone hear this and think that’s a good idea? Get the child to rage and then hold them down? Whaaaat

I appreciate the information on this book and I feel as though I understand my adopted sibling a lot better now. Adoption is so difficult — there is so much trauma surrounding it, and I want to help him grow up feeling secure and loved.

A Harvard Medical School study found children in foster care to have PTSD at twice the rate of U.S. war veterans.

That is actually one of the most depressing things I’ve ever read 💔