19th Story of Transgression: I Took 5 Years to Process Birth Mother Grief
I found out I was pregnant and chose open adoption in November of 2012. It is just this year that I finally feel free of the black cloud that descended on me th...
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The Best Day of 2017
Though I felt big anxiety and a bit of dread going into it, the best day of 2017 was the Friday three weeks ago when I became an Amm...
The Pain and Necessity of Dissociation as a Trauma Response
It was 5 years ago around this time of November that I learned I was 17 weeks pregnant at 39 years old with my third child. I was devastated by the news because...
Because My Heart Walks Outside of My Body in a Dangerous World
Because I had to initiate myself as an artist through the blood, then and now. Because I am a woman who bleeds. Because I am a mother whose blood became life. B...
Stripped by Self Love
I am being stripped down to the essentials by acts of loving myself. A couple years ago I gave up my third child and full-time motherhood, my hometown community...