Quotes from Bruce D. Perry

Based on her years of experience and practice, the firefighter had a moderate activation of her stress-response systems; the event felt predictable and controllable. For her, it was a resilience-building experience, not a trauma.

be excluded or dehumanized in an organization, community, or society you are part of results in prolonged, uncontrollable stress that is sensitizing (see Figure 3). Marginalization is a fundamental trauma.

The good news is that the brain is malleable all through life. We can change. But we don't randomly change. To use your favorite word, we can intentionally change if we know what needs to be addressed. The key is to recognize the patterns.

Even in the absence of major traumatic events, unpredictable stress and the lack of control that goes with it are enough to make our stress-response systems sensitized—overactive and overly reactive—creating the internal storm.

I finally connected the dots as to why I was afraid to be home alone at night. The attack on my grandmother, while we were asleep and at our most vulnerable, had been traumatizing.

I see that a key to healing from trauma is finding your "church home"—your people, your community. This can help build resilience, post-traumatic healing, and ultimately post-traumatic wisdom. It can help you become wise. Dr. Perry: It is impossible to be truly wise without some real-life hardship.

The challenge with activating our reward circuits is that the pleasure fades. The feeling of reward is short-lived. Think

His original negative experiences with whiteness, reinforced by many related experiences of overt and implicit racism at school and in the community, stayed with him. The earliest relational experiences are the most powerful and enduring.

In order to appreciate how children heal we need to understand how they learn to love, how they cope with challenge, how stress affects them. And by recognizing the destructive impact that violence and threat can have on the capacity to love and work, we can come to better understand ourselves and to nurture the people in our lives, especially the children.

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So each day we are pulled to refill our reward bucket.

If you're planning for consequences, in some sense, you are empathizing with your "future self.

In the powerful words of the poem "Invictus," I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

Talk about a system that needs trauma training. Law enforcement should be at the top of the list. Training about trauma, the brain, stress, and distress is essential if you are going to be a first responder—especially a police officer. Anyone given the responsibility of carrying a gun in service of society should have extensive training in these things.

a child with traumatic experiences will often have difficulty learning—and also be overreactive to the feedback and criticisms that come with struggling in school. This can lead to behavior problems. The behaviors are often misunderstood. So many of the things that people and systems do with good intentions actually cause additional pain for the families and children they're supposed to be serving.

Unpredictability and the unknown make everyone feel anxious and therefore less able to process information accurately.

The hypervigilance from their sensitized stress response is labeled ADHD; their predictable efforts to self-regulate—by rocking, chewing gum, doodling, daydreaming, listening to music, tapping their pencil, etc.—are prohibited. They will be labeled, medicated, excluded, punished, perhaps expelled, and then, all too often, arrested.

you're a white child who spends no time with children of color, you don't have any personal experiences to help build those important relational associations.

the more anxious someone is the harder it is for him to accurately recall and describe his feelings, thoughts and history.

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Music, laughter, dancing (even a party for one), knitting, cooking—finding what naturally soothes you not only regulates your heart and mind, it helps you stay open to the goodness in you and in the world.

Since before you were even born, that miraculous machine has been steadily pumping the energy of life throughout your body. Day in, day out, at least 115,000 beats each day, with the sole purpose of keeping you alive.

chair under the doorknob of her bedroom door and found some cans to put around the door. The next morning she tied those cans together and hung them from the door. And, every night for the rest of my days living with my grandmother, the cans were on the door and the chair was up under the knob. I would try to sleep while listening to make sure the cans didn't move.

Para poder desenvolverse socialmente, la gente necesita desarrollar lo que se conoce como "teoría de la mente". Dicho de otro modo, necesitan saber que las demás personas son distintas a ellos, que tienen un conocimiento distinto del mundo, así como deseos e intereses diferentes a los suyos.