“I wish I could embrace my 24-year-old self and show her she makes it through to the other side.”
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“I wish I could embrace my 24-year-old self and show her she makes it through to the other side.”
“Picture this the next time you have a hard conversation, difficult interaction, nerve-wracking interview, or a ‘feels like everything is at stake’ meeting.”
“By the time I was thirteen, I had experimented with every illicit drug on the market.”
“I realized the power I’m carrying around: uniqueness and extraordinary beauty. There is no human, all over the world, that looks like me and that is what makes me proud of the way I look.”
“I want to live in an inclusive community that values individuals with disabilities. I want them to be thought of first, not last, and have a seat at the table.”
“More than half of my life is blurry due to everything that was happening, but I never stopped digging. I wanted to see and face the truth.”
“Meeting my biological family members motivated me to become my best advocate in claiming back some power in my life.”
“I lived in constant hypervigilance due to posttraumatic stress from the abuse, and in my eyes, I didn’t deserve him. I was waiting for the moment he would either stop talking to me or try to use me.”
“There’s a massive issue with food wastage in our society, but our children not eating all of the grapes isn’t going to contribute to that.”
“After 13 years of marriage, 9 years of infertility, 3 years of fostering to adopt, and over a dozen caseworkers later, I humbly can say our waiting adventure is finally over!”