The single most common factor for children who develop resilience is at least one stable and committed relationship with a supportive parent, caregiver or other adult. These relationships are the active ingredients in building resilience.  A committed, stable adult buffers children from the full impact of a traumatic event...and can keep the stress from becoming toxic. -  Dr. Jack Shonkoff, Harvard's Center on the Developing Child.

What is Resilience?  How is it developed?  Aren't some children just born resilient?  How can stress be both good and toxic?  What are protective factors...and how can we become a protective factor for the people in our lives?

Ginger Healy & Julie Beem explore the topics of resilience, toxic stress, and where the hope for healing from early childhood trauma lies.

Center on the Developing Brain - Harvard University

Trauma Research Foundation