Ashley Ferder

“When parents are emotionally immature, their children's emotional needs will almost always lose out to the parents' own survival instincts.”
― Lindsay C. Gibson PsyD

“Little girls who lose their fathers spend their lives looking for them in every man they meet.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“Based on her years of experience and practice, the firefighter had a moderate activation of her stress-response systems; the event felt predictable and controllable. For her, it was a resilience-building experience, not a trauma.”
― Bruce D. Perry, What Happened to You?

“Early adversity leads to an abundant harvest.”
― Nicole Baart, Everything We Didn't Say