Tag: understanding people
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It Doesn’t Just Melt
The residual trauma inherent with kids from hard places is… ugly. It often gets shoved into a sort of emotional closet on which the door doesn’t quite shut. And it spills out in some scary ways from time to time. And much like the huge, ugly piles of snow and ice… it doesn’t just melt.
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Behavior Is Language
From our earliest moments of life outside the womb, our only means of expression—of communicating some need we feel—is simply to cry. Our brain doesn’t yet recognize words and formulate sentences. We depend entirely on the only language we have, the language of behavior.
Fostering Grace 