Sonia Beltz is a former digital editor for Love What Matters based near Dayton, Ohio. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English and Creative Writing from the University of Iowa. In her free time, you can find her writing, reading, or researching random historical facts online. Follow her on Instagram at @skatbel.
“My mom and stepdad went to hell and back to bail me out the next morning. Guess what I did that night? You guessed it. I got drunk.”
“Without my label, I wouldn’t have the family, life, and job that I love and I wouldn’t be writing this very article that illuminates it.”
“Practicing personal development as a couple is you are constantly communicating freely and truly, you learn about yourself, each other, and you both as a couple.”
“After the second or third date, she called it off. It absolutely broke me, which felt silly after such a short period of time, but I didn’t want to lose her before I even had her.”
“Realizing that I did not have to hide who I was allowed me to feel pride in everything that made me, me.”
“I watch as he screams and shouts and trashes his room because he can’t understand why nobody wants to invite him for a play date. He is more than ENOUGH, he’s just around the wrong people to see it.”
“You don’t fully fit with other parents. And you don’t fully fit with autistic people either. It feels like you cannot be both.
“Don’t teach your children to hate or hide their diagnosis. There is NOTHING they aren’t capable of accomplishing.”
“If we want to feel beautiful, we have to let ourselves be beautiful.”
“She was in my arms, she was real, and she was ours. For the first time, I sobbed happy tears.”
