“Please take the risk, eat the cake, do the thing. Please start the business, grow your family, follow your heart. We didn’t want it to come. But it still came. And then it came again. And it had no mercy.”
‘I’ve lived a good life. You’ve given me everything.’ We didn’t see it coming.’: After losing husband to cancer, woman urges ‘pull your loved ones close’
‘She probably still has fluid in her ears from the delivery.’ I knew it was more.’: Mom advocates for hard of hearing daughter, ‘It’s not something to apologize for or fear’
“‘Love her like you would a normal child.’ Would people really think Charlotte wasn’t a ‘normal’ child or we wouldn’t love the crap out of her? And what is ‘normal’ anyway?”
‘I want you to raise him and be his parents for the rest of his life.’ She gave us the biggest blessing of our lives.’: Couple adopt 3 miracle children after unexplained infertility diagnosis
“My husband took my hands and said, ‘Rachel, I think we need to wait. I feel like a child is going to be put into our lives when we aren’t expecting it.’ Two days later, the sweetest baby boy was wheeled into the room. As soon as I saw him, my heart knew….I would do anything for him.”
‘In this photo you see an aunt mid-laugh, posing with her niece on her 40th birthday. It was a good day, a really good day.’: Niece urges ‘recovery is possible’ after losing aunt to addiction
“What you don’t see is depression and addiction. You don’t see jail, and rehab, and a woman who would soon be found by a passerby trying to jump off a bridge. You don’t see a high school freshman being forced to grow up too fast, or an open casket.”
This Case Hits Hard, Because So Many Of Us Could Have Ended Up Like Gabby Petito
“Because most girls have felt unsafe with someone they thought they could trust. Because most girls have found themselves in a dangerous situation before they even realized it. Because most girls can look back at a time or two, or more, when they could’ve easily fallen victim to a narcissist who is a ticking time bomb.”
‘I need help. I can’t do this anymore.’ At 2 a.m., my pounding heart and sweaty body woke me from a 5-day drinking bender.’: Woman details emotional sobriety journey
“I was always the good student, then the good employee, but I became the good drinker.”
‘I finished your branch of the family tree.’ What can of worms have I opened? I was excited and nervous at the same time.’: Adoptee shares incredible reunion with birth parents, siblings
“I thought they were just two immature high school kids who got knocked up. The moment he reacted to the words, ‘I think you’re my birth father,’ I knew I was wrong.”
‘I was 18, too in my prime to be PREGNANT! Boy, were those two lines so clear.’: Young woman navigating single motherhood urges ‘it doesn’t define who you are’
“I was promised my boyfriend would be there for me. Because of my circumstances, my party life had stopped. Meanwhile, his kept going. My relationship with my child’s father was slowly crumbling.”
Man Singing On The Job Lands Music Deal Plumbing For Record Label Owner
“More than 20 years after giving up on his musical career, Kev’s dreams were about to come true.”
‘Did it ever occur to you ‘fat’ is not a feeling?’: Woman urges ‘you deserve to love your body’
“I’ve heard ‘I feel fat’ come out of the mouths of women of all shapes and sizes.”