Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory...

A child's attachment process begins within the first year of life...

There is no debating that the effects of trauma experienced in childhood may have grave consequences.

Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all.

Perception is a vice with which each person is capable of perceiving his or her reality.

Children who are resilient often have an appearance of a Teflon coating: nothing seems to faze these children.

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...

Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.

My traumatic experience was life changing

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever.

All of my close friends have been in my life for years. My best friends are all people I met in grade school, going back as far as 3rd grade.

The greatest danger for artists is total freedom.

I'm very active. I've got two small daughters and four restaurants in three cities. I'm busy.

If this were a simpler matter, I'd have eliminated everyone else by now.

The worst thing is the world is a defensive my-kid-can't-do-anything-wrong parent.

Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history.

To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we're killing are our protectors.

I would like to make sleeping my new hobby, except that I'm too tired, really, to have a hobby. But a girl can always dream.