Elyssa Harootian

“when a child is upset, logic often won’t work until we have responded to the right brain’s emotional needs. We call this emotional connection “attunement,” which is how we connect deeply with another person and allow them to “feel felt.”
― Daniel J. Siegel, The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

“What we need here is a paradigm shift on how we look at ourselves and our space. I’ll say it again: you don’t exist to serve your space; your space exists to serve you.”
― K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

“Lucky would see mothers and daughters out in the world and understand that not always, but sometimes and really quite often, a mother was a soft, safe, beautiful thing. She didn’t have that. And she ached for it.”
― Marissa Stapley, Lucky

“Images that worked like memory, she thought. The way memory is triggered by objects. The way objects, spaces, the arrangements of things, can call up those who aren’t there, can give life to them again.”
― Sue Miller, Monogamy