"The nearer Kim and I approached the decision to marry, the more I was filled with a paralyzing fear. Was I ready? Was I making the right choice? Was Kim the right person to marry? Would she make me happy? Then, one fateful night..."
"I looked back to the bed. Still empty. And then it happened. I fell to my knees, and then to my back. It came from up from my gut. I could almost physically feel it moving to the top of my abdomen, to my chest, into my neck and then my head. I cannot describe the pain."
"You are so unbelievably excited that your child is born…and in the next moment you believe you’ll have to say farewell to your wife forever. It was like being numbed."
Just nine days after welcoming her twin daughters, Ariana Sutton took her life. Her experience is the perfect example of how postpartum depression and psychosis are terrible thieves. Now her husband is sharing their story in hopes of helping others.
Don't assume no one cares. Instead, you can safely assume someone probably feels defeated and a bit like she's failing. You can assume she's overwhelmed. Frustrated. Hopeless to the point where she's considered burning the place down and starting over somewhere new. You can assume she's tired. Soooo dang tired.
A friend asked me, "Would you send your college kid to school with Narcan?" As the opioid crisis rages on in America, parents are faced with a new reality.
"We over-analyze texts. We wonder why we didn’t get the invite. We see glances, whispers and assume they're directed at us. We waste so much of our time worrying about other people’s opinions only to leave ourselves feeling empty."
As the single mom struggled to manage her belongings and her energetic toddler, a man noticed her and stepped in to help. The stranger offered to carry the car seat and stroller, a gesture that immediately eased some of the mom's burden.
