“I had a missed call. My husband then got a call. We looked at each other… ‘Answer it!’ ‘Louis, are you with Audrey?’ ‘Yes, she can hear you.’ The words she spoke stopped time for me. Everything she said next was hard to process. I was shocked. It all felt right. We felt a calmness that can’t be explained.”
“I looked at her puzzled, so she continued. ‘And. You are happy he is here AND you are happy you don’t have to see him right now. You don’t have to choose.’ After we left our session that day, I couldn’t stop thinking about that one little word.”
“We were going to pick out my wedding dress. It was just three months until my wedding date and my grandma was still feeling decent. Then, my worst nightmare was coming true. I made the decision to have our wedding in the hospital in less then 24 hours.”
“I want them to know they will lose people. People they love, people that are important to them. But just because we lose someone, doesn’t mean they are gone.”
“This year, I’m laying it all down. I can’t. The truth is, I’m in the weeds. Some years aren’t meant to be record-breaking. Some years are meant to survive.”
“That day at the hair salon was pivotal. As I sat with foils covering my head, I knew I had to make some changes. For so many years I had put others before me, it was time to take control of my life.”
“The lady called me an abomination. There was a cry in the bedroom. The baby had woken up. Oh wow he smelled a little like cheese, not quite blue cheese, but definitely aged cheddar.”
“We’re not perfect, but we are perfect for each other. She is my soulmate and the best friend I’ve ever had.”
“‘Mom, that girl standing in the hallway looks just like your little butterfly.’ My daughter was in the middle of a dress rehearsal at the mall. As I turned to see this mysterious look-alike, I paused. She was there, and I was there. I stopped. ‘Your birth mother is in that room. Would you like to meet her?’”
“Tantrums. Not sleeping. Overtired. Driving me to the brink of insanity…”
