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I guess to their wide, innocent eyes it all seemed like normal family life because they had never known any different. In fact, I was the only one who had lived with anyone else, the only one that realized that life didn't have to be this terrifying and this painful all the timeJoe Peters
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When you're little you believe whatever your mother tells you, so I assumed it must be true, that I must be inferior to the others in some way.Joe Peters
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Usually we're on the same page. Other times I'm in a whole other book"~ Arika WollyArika Wolly
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Complexly traumatized children need to be helped to engage their attention in pursuits that do not remind them of trauma-related triggers and that give them a sense of pleasure and mastery. Safety, predictability, and "fun" are essential for the establishment of the capacity to observe what is going on, put it into a larger context, and initiate physiological and motoric self-regulation.Sarah Benamer