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All Children Are Born To Grow, To Develop, To Live, To Love, And To Articulate Their Needs And Feelings For Their Self-protection

An Unacknowledged Trauma Is Like A Wound That Never Heals Over And May Start To Bleed Again At Any Time.

Experience Has Taught Us That We Have Only One Enduring Weapon In Our Struggle Against Mental Illness: The Emotional Discovery And Emotional Acceptance Of The Truth In The Individual And Unique History Of Our Childhood.

Learning Is A Result Of Listening, Which In Turn Leads To Even Better Listening And Attentiveness To The Other Person. In Other Words, To Learn From The Child, We Must Have Empathy, And Empathy Grows As We Learn.

Every Life And Every Childhood Is Filled With Frustrations; We Cannot Imagine It Otherwise, For Even The Best Mother Cannot Satisfy All Her Child's Wishes And Needs. It Is Not The Suffering Caused By Frustration, However, That Leads To Emotional Illness, But Rather The Fact That The Child Is Forbidden By The Parents To Experience And Articulate This Suffering, The Pain Felt At Being Wounded.