Quotes About Impact

In Sandy's case, milk, once associated with nurturing and nutrition, now became the stuff that spilled from her throat, that her mother "refused" as she lay dead. Silverware was now no longer something used to eat your food, but rather something that killed and maimed and horrified. And doorbells—well, that was what had started the whole thing: the ringing of the doorbell had announced the arrival of the killer.

can warm or consume, water can quench or drown, wind can caress or cut. And so it is with human relationships: we can both create and destroy, nurture and terrorize, traumatize and heal each other.

Colonization, slavery, the U.S. reservation system, Canada's Residential Schools, Australia's Stolen Generation—these were so destructive across so many generations because they intentionally destroyed the family and cultural bonds that keep a people connected.

how changes in our emotional state can affect how we learn.

Yes. We all want to be part of a group, yet so many children are marginalized, excluded, or bullied. This can be devastating. Being left out can have a deep and enduring impact.

Childhood experiences literally impact the biology of the brain.

The developmental process is very front-loaded, meaning that the majority of brain growth and organization takes place in the first years of life. Now, this doesn't mean that the brain won't change after early childhood, but early life experiences do have a very powerful impact on how we develop.

The example of Mr. Roseman involves traumatic experiences that took place when he was twenty-four years old. If these experiences changed the brain of a twenty-four-year-old, imagine the impact of trauma on the brain of an infant or toddler—how much more pervasive the effects would be.

If you look carefully at our biology after a traumatic experience-all the way down to the way genes are expressed-trauma will change everyone in some way.

Adversity impacts the developing child. Period. What the impact will be, when it may manifest, how it may be "buffered"-we can't always say. But developmental trauma will always influence our body and brain.

Dr. Perry: That vibration, as you describe it, equates to the emotional tone of the environment.

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The earliest relational experiences are the most powerful and enduring.

los niños pequeños son muy susceptibles a la espiral de consecuencias de las elecciones que nosotros —y después ellos— hacemos, tanto para bien como para mal.

All of us want to know that what we do, what we say, and who we are matters.

is even more difficult to understand and take into account how early childhood trauma can express underlying genetic vulnerabilities.

Is fear transmissible from generation to generation? Can the fearfulness of a parent be transmitted to the child? -the answer is an empathic yes.

What this also means is that early experiences will necessarily have a far greater impact than later ones.

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.

healthy changes in the case of the rats with control over the stress, and deterioration and dysregulation in the others.

patterned, repetitive experience in a safe environment can have an enormous impact on the brain

people. We project that expectation in our interactions with others and thereby actually elicit good from them. Our internal view of the world becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; we project what we expect, and that helps elicit what we expect.

the earlier it starts, the more difficult it is to treat and the greater the damage is likely to be.

A lifelong set of beliefs and behaviors can emerge when trauma is experienced at a young age. In one of the most serious manifestations, early sexual abuse can poison intimacy, even if the person has no actual recollection of specific instances of abuse.