Cara Fuller Engelbrecht

“The scan of the child who had been through trauma looked like Swiss cheese. Almost all of their brain activity occurs in the “fight-flight-or-freeze” part of the brain, with little activity in the cerebral cortex — the part of the brain that allows us to think and process rationally.”
― Jennie Lynn Owens, Dancing with a Porcupine: Parenting wounded children without losing your self

“You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections. There is nothing like it in the world.”
― Teri Wilson, The Accidental Beauty Queen

“But what between the poor men I won’t have, and the rich men who won’t have me, I stand as a pelican in the wilderness!”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“we miss the joy of new seasons when we continue grieving the old ones.”
― Heather Meadows, Transforming Tragedy: An Inspiring Story of Changing Painful to Powerful