“We just expected things to work out because we were friends, good people, and good parents. All that matters is now, we are one.”
- Love What Matters
- Trauma & Healing
“We just expected things to work out because we were friends, good people, and good parents. All that matters is now, we are one.”
“They say when people drown, it’s silent. Nobody around them can see them, hear them, or help them. The person drowning is slipping further and further beneath the surface, slowly suffocating. That’s what it felt like. I was drowning every day, suffocating, desperate for a breath, watching to the world around me carry on, with no idea that I was dying. But no matter how hard, I always choose to keep going.”
“I begged him to please pull over, but he kept driving. It was quite clear this man’s intentions were not good.”
“And now, imagine you don’t actually have to imagine this.”
“It’s been two years of pumping my body full of every hormone you can imagine. One to make me ovulate, one to stop ovulating. Birth control pills to control your cycle, then hormones to throw you into menopause. Estrogen pills, patches, vaginal suppositories, and injections.”
“The process of getting pregnant with someone else’s baby is equally terrifying and exhilarating.”
“It is important for me that the world sees what is happening in my country.”
“Today we woke up for the first time without the air strike alarm.”
“I fell at 125mph.”
“Kindness transforms these women into the people and mothers they were meant to be.”