By Jillian Benfield I Was Scared To Look at My Baby When He Was Born
The day had arrived. We prepared for this day for months. Only we didn’t prep in the way most families…
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By Karen Gauvreau Why Parenting Teenagers Is Exactly Like Having a Mammogram
Young women who have not yet had a mammogram, or male readers, you may want to sit this one out.…
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By Maralee Bradley I Used to Want to Change the World. Now I Just Want a Cookie.
I'm on the seventh day of a month-long highly restrictive diet to try to deal with some health issues I've…
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By Ashley Bufe You Can’t Pray It Away—And Other Things I Learned About Depression After Suffering From it Myself
I felt alone. With a new baby. Four kids under six. New town, new church, and I had quit my…
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By Valli Vida Gideons I Kept a Diary While I Starved Myself
For people with eating disorders, it's not how others see them that counts. It's how they look at themselves. June…
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By Arianna Freelen Scarred But Stronger Thanks To Postpartum Depression
I walked past her today. In my rush to care for sick babies, clean up, put up, and then begin…
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By Tierney Cashman Fighting For My Daughter Against My Anxiety
I rarely put my daughter to bed. My husband doesn’t mind, he says. He enjoys getting the final snuggles before…
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By Her View From Home To the Wounded Wife, Staying Doesn’t Make You Weak
I drove up to work, my eyes puffy from sleeplessness and sobs. I'd left our four-month-old with my aunt and…
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By Caitlin Rodiek Motherhood Hid My Depression
There was a time, in my early twenties, when I was so full of energy and pep that people…
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By Kathryn Malherbe This Isn’t What I Thought Motherhood Would Be Like
I did not sign up for this. This thought went through my head as a screaming four-week-old newborn was lying…
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By Lindsay Stauffer Postpartum Depression is a Liar and a Thief
Dear postpartum depression, You’re brilliant. No really, you are. You let me make it through my first pregnancy completely unscathed, with…
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By Brynn Burger Dear Son With Invisible Disabilities, You Are Not Broken
As I sit at my desk, wiping my tears and trying to prepare myself for my workday, I am overwhelmed.…
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