Cara Fuller Engelbrecht

“what books do, Maddie used to say; they are a conversation, and introduce us to ourselves and to others.”
― Katherine Reay, The Printed Letter Bookshop

“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

“Similarly, regardless of the race of their adoptive parents, they reflected positive feelings of self-regard.”
― Rita J. Simon, In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories

“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