“Foster care is a lot like a rose garden. These children are worth the wait and effort. They are worth the pin-pricks from the thorns.”
‘There are children who need a safe place, how can I ignore that?’ We couldn’t hold our hearts back.’: Mom diagnosed with mast cell disease grows family through foster care, adoption
‘Placement needed after all, kids are on the way. We’ll be there in 20 minutes.’: Couple shares foster care journey with sibling sets, teens, reunifications
“When I think of our foster care journey everything is truly dialectic. It is love and it is frustration, it is depleting and it is rewarding, it is heartbreaking and heartwarming all at once.”
Your Miscarriage Experience Is Valid, Even If It Doesn’t Look Like Everyone Else’s
“I couldn’t remember the day my miscarriage happened. I forgot what that baby’s due date was supposed to be. I felt like a terrible person for not remembering the dates of one of the toughest experiences in my life.”
‘She looked at me with no emotion. ‘It just happens. All my life it just happens.’ My 11-year-old is numb.’: Mom shares harrowing conversation with daughter after Uvalde school shooting
“’Mom. I need a phone. If I have one, I can call you if a shooter comes to my school.’”
‘When I got home, there were three cop cars outside. He didn’t even get to see his first Father’s Day.’: Widow overcomes grief to find new love after losing husband to drunk driver
“There is life after loss. It is possible to live in the here and now and still honor and respect what was.”
‘I Looked To My Left And No Longer Saw My Arm.’: Teen Shares New Outlook On Life After ATV Accident
“When people came to visit me they were shocked at how positive I was. I told them that the most important thing was that I made it out alive, not my missing arm.”
‘In a year and a half, our family of 2 grew to 6.’: Couple share foster care adoption story, premature triplet birth after infertility
“Brycen didn’t know about us until two days before our first visit, to protect him from having high hopes ripped away again. He’d experienced many adults not keeping promises, so he kept questioning if we were really going to adopt him.”
6 Signs Your Partner’s Narcissistic Parent Is Affecting Your Relationship
“If these red flags resonate with you, it is time for your partner to get un-enmeshed with their parent.”
If Not For Sobriety, I Would Be Dead Or In Jail
“I thought everyone was saying, ‘OMG, there’s Hannah, the insane girl.’ I never felt so depressed and anxious in my life.”
‘My husband, the love of my life, took his life without warning.’: Widow shares healing journey on 5-year wedding anniversary
“The energy in the air felt thick—off in some way. But I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. ‘It must be nerves about the move,’ I rationalized.”