“My children’s father was set on a path that would lead him to a heroin addiction. The young man I had married, the one that had loved his babies and was so excited to be a dad, was gone.”
‘I was married to a drug addict, then I married a man who happened to be a recovering addict. I wouldn’t change a thing.’
‘No, not my child… wait, wait, wait. WHY US, WHY NOW?’: 2 families, 9 children, 3 congenital heart defects
“She didn’t have any symptoms. She didn’t have any signs screaming there was an issue. I thought we knew about these defects. I thought we were safe with all my children checked off with perfect health.”
”Skinny girls can wear whatever. Skinny girls have it so easy.’ Yeah, OK, try being skinny for a year and you’ll understand how hard it is.’
“We don’t have it easy. Yeah, we can eat whatever and not gain weight. That’s a pro of being skinny. Other than that, there’s not much else positive out of being skinny.”
To The Woman Who Called Me ‘Cruel’ For Smiling As I Held My Dying Child
“It’s a comment that stuck out like a sore thumb. I stopped in my tracks, as if I had been kicked in the gut.”
How Anxiety Presents In My Day-To-Day Life
“Anxiety isn’t just chest pains, crying, and the inability to relax.”
‘Mom thought her mother had died – that day!’: Elderly woman with dementia devastated over death of mother 70 years ago
“I went to give her a kiss and she said, ‘Did you know my mother died today? She died and no one cares. It was so sudden and unexpected.'”
Today I Taught Grown Men An Empathy Lesson After Judging Me For Carrying My 6-Year-Old
“A man yelled at me from 30 feet away: ‘What the f–k? Make her walk. That’s what is wrong with kids today.’ I had a choice. Can I make myself feel better by screaming at him or can I teach him something about life?”
I Wear This Two-Piece Bathing Suit So My Daughter Knows Self-Love
“My daughter would question me as to why I wasn’t wearing a two-piece bathing suit. I would tell her, “Mommy just doesn’t feel comfortable in it,” and when she would push for me to explain what I meant I would just deflect the conversation and bring up a new topic.”
Our Son Was Created, Frozen, Thawed, And Grown In His Grandmother’s Womb
“My heart began to race. Here was this woman, my mother-in-law, risking her life to give me the best gift of my life. I tried to hold back my tears.”
”Not you, we don’t want you fatty!’ a boy said to me as I was walking with a friend and he called out to us.’
“When I was thin, a guy told me I was ‘too skinny,’ and that ‘only dogs like bones.’ I felt depleted, like I couldn’t win.”