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“The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.”

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Bruce D. Perry

Source: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook

“Fire can warm or consume,
water can quench or drown,
wind can caress or cut.

And so it is with human relationshps;
we can both create and destroy,
nurture and terrorize,
traumatize and heal each other”

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Bruce D. Perry

“The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.”

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Bruce D. Perry

Source: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook