Scared animals return home, regardless of whether home is safe or frightening. - Bessel van der Kolk

It is striking how many times people carve out a piece of exceptional intelligence – exceptional creativity – that allows them to go on. Isaac Newton was one of the most abused, abandoned children ever … And then he invented mathematics.

One thing is certain: Yelling at someone who is already out of control can only lead to further dysregulation.

Being traumatized means continuing to organize your life as if the trauma were still going on—unchanged and immutable—as every new encounter or event is contaminated by the past.