"There will always be the older white woman in Walmart who stared at us with sheer disgust, or the African-American mother who looked at us and just shook her head.”
Dr. Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon and former agnostic, suffered a rare and severe case of streptococcal meningitis which caused his brain to flatline. Dr. Alexander made a miraculous recovery and says the experience taught him to “realize that our souls are eternal.”
Loving someone the way you want to be loved, doesn’t always work. My husband and I view love so differently, but you know what? I think we’re going to be okay.
"The next morning he woke up and wasn’t feeling good. I assumed it was all the excitement from the day before. The last words he ever said to us were 'I love you too.'"
"I, personally, feel so isolated by the image society has created for me, scared that in these moments when I should feel like I need to reach out for help, I will be judged instead."
