Based in New York City, Sophia San Filippo has worked with Love What Matters as a lead editor and content curator since early 2019 and has acted as Managing Editor since early 2021. She is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Binghamton University who holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, Creative Writing, and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. She is passionate about personal storytelling and creating a positive space in media to better the lives of others. On a typical day you can find her rocking out at her local concert venue, admiring nature, or baking her latest kitchen experiment.
‘If you feel like no one believes in you, remember that I do.’: Single mom, abuse survivor graduates top of her nursing class thanks to nurse whose kindness saved her life
“I was a complete stranger to her, but she didn’t care. She hugged me tight. ‘Go back to nursing school, finish your degree, and make your kid’s proud. They need you.’ I put my head in my hands and cried for the first time in 9 months.”
As A Mother, Nothing Can Prepare You For The Moment Your First-Born Looks At Their Newborn Child
“She is a portal of love for all of us to fall into at this moment in time. My grandma heart is mush.”
‘My abuser always told me, ‘No one’s going to marry you now with that ugly hand.’: Domestic violence survivor gets loving husband’s handwriting tattooed beneath stab wound
“When I walked out of the tattoo parlor with my husband’s handwriting tattooed on my ‘ugly hand,’ it was now something beautiful. I look down and feel pride I was able to overcome and leave with my own life.”
Raising Children In This Beautiful Mess Of A World Isn’t For The Faint Of Heart
“As I sat to the side of the curb, salty drops navigating their way down to my chin, I couldn’t help but think how so much of motherhood is done in the spaces where no one else is. Where it’s just us. All by ourselves. Sometimes crying. Oftentimes praying. All the time loving.”
I Adopted A Newborn Orphan At 22 Years Old, And It’s The Best Decision I’ve Ever Made
“A 5-day old baby was placed into my arms. I was only 22 years old but, at that moment, my life as I knew it changed. I fell in love.”
I Say A Prayer At Drop Off
“It shouldn’t be this way. This I know. Yet here we are. I don’t want to let you go.”
‘It looks like a harmless weed.’: Mom warns of poison hemlock after daughter suffers severe reaction
“We decided to do a walk around our property to look for any plants that could have given her this bad of a reaction. And then…we found it. Our property (and all of our neighbor’s properties) were lined with hundreds of them.”
Motherhood Is Filled With Contradictions
“It causes constant guilt while bringing us infinite joy. It is filled with uncertainty and fear, while also showing us strength we didn’t know existed. We teach and guide our kids, but our kids are our greatest teachers of all.”
‘Every teacher you know has thought about it. Every teacher you know has a plan for an active shooter.’: Former teacher shares heartbreaking reaction to Uvalde mass shooting
“Every teacher you know thinks it can happen, so they pray it doesn’t.”
Dad of 4 Voluntarily Guards Elementary School To ‘Ease The Worries Of Parents’ In Wake Of Uvalde Texas Shooting
“As an army veteran and security professional, it seemed selfish of me to not offer the parents of my own community peace of mind and the same type of services I would total strangers.”