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.
“Mothers are told we chose to have our kids, so we CAN’T burn out. False. We do burn out. We feel over-touched, overly loved, and overly sensitized to everything.”
“My mind is on a never-ending treadmill of thoughts, but I will focus on what is most important, especially THIS season…and THIS year.”
“Someday soon, I’ll be in a completely different season of life. Until that happens, I will embrace this season for all of its beauty and its faults.”
“As we took our final bow, I could feel my clock running out. Every joint in my body ached. But I was determined to play the role of a ‘healthy person in their 20s’ for as long as I could.”
“The world needs a little bit of different every now and then. The world needs more zombie-themed Christmas cards. The world needs you to be YOU.”
“My fingers trembled as I typed it out. ‘I can’t believe what I just said.’ But, sometimes, we need to take a stand for what we deserve.”
“My teacher asked, ‘What happened in the story?’ I couldn’t remember anything. I felt anxious, defeated, and upset. I just wanted to give up.”
“I tortured myself with the fear of not getting any answers. After all the years of feeling lost, feeling different, feeling like an outsider, I felt liberated.”
“’I think I’ve heard of that.’ He had tons of questions. On our wedding day, I had a huge lung bleed that lasted two hours. Nothing like this had ever happened before.”
“Even as a child, I could feel the stigma permeate into my brain from books and TV shows. I knew this made me weird. I thought I could be like everyone else if I just tried harder.”
