“You never know the journey a person has been on through motherhood.”
‘The choice to have a child is personal, and sometimes people don’t have the choice at all.’: Mom of 2 urges ‘let’s normalize NOT asking women when they’re having kids’
‘At times, I felt I was going to faint in centerfield. I was certain I was dying.’: Baseball player shares journey with anxiety, mental health
“Sitting in large classrooms started making me nauseous, being on a plane, meeting new people, even baseball. I had no idea what I was dealing with.”
‘I cried for the better part of an hour and a half. That is NOT a sign of weakness.’: Man speaks up about normalizing mental health
“We don’t have to feel like we are failing, unbalanced, or wrong. You are NOT alone.”
‘This is the worst nightmare any parent can go through, and we HAVE to talk about it.’: Mom opens up on loss of son to break ‘taboo’ around suicide
“He didn’t withdraw from friends or family. He didn’t talk about wanting to hurt himself. I don’t have any answers, but I want to make sure this doesn’t happen to anyone else.”
Why It’s Time For Hollywood To Stop Depicting Villains With Facial Disfigurements (From A Severe Burn Survivor)
“Over time, Hollywood has come a long way in improving representation. Black characters can be heroic; gay characters are rarely reduced to stereotypes. Overweight characters can be presented in the full complexity of their humanity. However, disfigured people are still fair game. In fact, I can’t think of any other marginalized group that is so relentlessly negatively portrayed on screen.”
6 Mom ‘Firsts’ We Don’t Talk About Enough
“We like to celebrate a lot of babies’ firsts. First bath, first car ride, first tooth—you name it. I have pages in my girls’ baby books dedicated to this stuff. But what about mom firsts?”
‘Not being able to smile is the greatest gift I could’ve been given.’: Woman with rare Moebius Syndrome turns pain to purpose
“I’ve been through a lot, seen a lot, and been dealt a lot in my short 24 years of being on this earth, but I’ve come out on the other side, turned my pain into power, and now I get to live out my dream reality.”
Sometimes I Forget My ‘Normal’ Is Different From Yours
“Every once in a while, I forget about the rest of the world and what ‘normal’ looks like to everyone else. And then I become shocked by seeing someone taking her 3 kids out to eat…with no feeding tubes or special equipment.”
‘I grabbed my keys and drove off to nowhere, anywhere but home.’: Mom shares confession ‘carrying a family is exhausting’
“Not wanting to be asked for another snack, or toy, or dinner, or to wipe a butt, or to wash hands, or to put on socks. I didn’t want to be called mom; I didn’t want to be called babe. I just wanted to be me — unattached to any title that meant being needed by someone else. I didn’t want to be their everything.”
‘I have baby-sagging bajungas. Hers are BIG and perky. I grump and binge eat cheese. She meditates and cooks ‘real meals.’: Woman shares reminder to ‘throw comparison out the window’
“For the longest time, I thought she was better than me.”