Secure attachment has been linked to a child’s ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.

Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone…

Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework…

Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific…

Trauma can have a masking effect.

Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.

When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience.

One thing I’ve learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don’t like anyone telling me how I’m supposed to feel or think or what...

His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart.

It’s not enough to step in front of people’s bullets; you have to be bulletproof too. You have to be harder than anything anyone else can throw at you, and sometimes you risk losing yourself...

[T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient, and, no matter what interruptions occur, people so badly want to return to...

I believe there is a hero in each of us. The best books are the ones that remind us of who we already are and empower us to embrace our own story.

Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city–a place with an energy unlike anywhere else in the world, a majority-African American city where resistance to white supremacy has...

The psychologist Jerome Kagan has argued that parenting has a threshold function: up until that threshold is crossed, the effects of a child’s very early experience even out in the end. But parenting that crosses...

Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches...

There was, however, a difference between his mood and that of the rest of the cabinet. They felt desperate; he felt challenged.

She had dealt with her pregnancy by wrapping herself in dreams.

If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes…