Asa Don Brown Quotes

Our perceptions are influenced by our surroundings.
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Traumatic experiences in early childhood may interfere with the child's ability to securely attach.
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Domestic violence is frequently excused when alcohol and other substances are involved.
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Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.
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Unhealthy relationships are most commonly lacking in the most essential of ingredient: healthy communication.
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Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant verbal and nonverbal ways.
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If you wait to live you will never succeed. Living begins today and it begins within you.
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The ramifications of workplace violence can have a lingering effect on the organization for generations.
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Life is a purposeful action.
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Perfectionism is adaptive if you are mindful of your humanhood.
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The lack of culpability of the perpetrator and his or her transference of blame onto alcohol or other substances only perpetuates the violent behaviors.
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May you begin living beyond.
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A key to healthy problem solving is good communication.
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There is no greater grief, than when a parent losses a child.
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My traumatic experience was life changing
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Trauma can have a masking effect.
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Pure happiness and peace are at their peak when your body is in harmony with itself.
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A child's temperament appears to play another significant role in the child's own perceptions and worldview.
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Love is a sacrificial item
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Love is an unconditional state of being.
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Intrapersonal communication is a reflection of your self-esteem.
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As fathers, we should have a desire to be active participants in our children’s lives.
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A life lived without forgiveness is a life lived in the past.
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Have you ever noticed that fear affects your physical mind and body?
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Real peace goes beyond explanation.
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...Studies have found that children who witness abuse are more likely to accept relationships that are abusive.
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The key to healthy communication is having a willingness to lay aside our defensive tendencies and accept responsibility for our part of the relationship
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Living in the past is a conscious or an unconscious choice made through a connection to the past.
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Perception is a vice with which each person is capable of perceiving his or her reality.
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Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...
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Be an informed advocate and support.
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Brainstorming is the nexus of ideas.
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What is an unconditional state?
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For far too long, the female gender has been plagued with stereotypes, typecasting, as well as, subtle and blatant discrimination.
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Communication is the lifeblood of an organization.
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Perception and worldview are one's summary of life.
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As a father, we need to actively listen.
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In simple, the past is a time gone by and no longer exists in the present moment, but we choose to allow this past to occupy our minds, our bodies and our very existence.
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The loss of a child exploits the emotions of each individual it encounters.
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The loss of my child broke my spirit.
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There is no debating that the effects of trauma experienced in childhood may have grave consequences.
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Domestic violence rarely affects only those directly involved in the abusive relationship.
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No one wants to be entrapped by his or her addictive habit...
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I have frequently thought to myself, 'If I can teach my daughter one thing, it will be the love of self unconditionally.' Unconditional love and peace are obtainable, but they are only obtainable if I can learn to move beyond the conditions that I placed on my life. When conditions are placed on my life and on the lives of others, they ensure that I will never experience the depths of love and happiness.
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Communication can be sent or received through verbal or nonverbal cues.
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What are the messages that you are entertaining?
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Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation.
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It is essential that children who are directly or indirectly affected by domestic violence receive psychological care.
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Survivors of trauma may have difficulty initiating relationships ...
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All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.
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Forgiveness has the ability to transform our thoughts.
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Be your best proponent, ally, and advocate.
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Shame and blame should have no place in our body, mind, or spirit.
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Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific...
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Always make your familial environment a safe and inviting place.
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Real happiness provides you the confidence that you never thought was obtainable.
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An anchor should be someone who is personally open and willing to communicate.
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Are you seeking to be offended?
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Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.
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Happiness is not giddiness or some overly inflated sense of being.
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