In her TEDX lecture, she explains, “Instead of luxuriating in the power of ‘ yet’ they were gripped in the tyranny of now.” Children missed the opportunity to grow intellectually and lost out on the availability of their brain’s neuroplasticity (the ability of neural pathways to heal, rewire, and develop).
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When they begin to “have to come” to therapy or you learn that their partner is the main reason for continuing on: This is the one an only time that motivation cannot be built. If all of the effort and desire to change is external, then there is nothing to build on.