By Brittany Belizor My Childhood Was Just a Blueprint
They say childhood is a blueprint. I didn’t know that growing up I just thought it was a house with…
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By Samantha Mckillop The Mother I Needed, The Mother I Became
I love being home for you after school. Watching you play in the front yard with your friends, running in…
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By Lauren Benson Am I Doing Enough to Break the Cycle?
I’m lying in bed, trying to shut off my ADHD brain. I’m usually caught in a cycle of obsessively overthinking…
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By A Cogent Breaking the Cycle of Motherly Abandonment
I remember lying there, having just heard the first screams of my newly-born baby girl. Feeling incredibly worn out, yet…
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By Her View From Home Being the Cycle Breaker in a Toxic Family Is Lonely but Worth It
I am a cycle breaker. My maternal grandmother was abusive, and my mother carried the torch for the next generation.…
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Dear Daughter, God Knew I Needed You
Life sure knows how to throw surprises our way, doesn't it? And you, my sweet daughter, were the absolute best…
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By Carole Hawkins Her Future Will Not Be My Broken Past
Forty years ago, you were an innocent child. You were brought into this world for a purpose. Your innocence is…
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By Laura Childers When Mama Doesn’t Love
She is nine years old, squeezed into the far corner of the bathtub, fully clothed, legs folded to her chest.…
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By Laura Niebauer Palmer If You Fear Becoming Your Mother, Remember the Cycle Ends With You
How desperately I wish you could read this as you stand at the precipice of parenthood. I know how scared…
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I Don’t Want My Kids To Fear Me Like I Feared My Parents
If I had to choose one word that summarized my sentiments toward my own parents growing up, it would be…
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By Jenni Brennan I Do for My Kids What My Parents Didn’t Do for Me
Sometimes I get mad when I rearrange my work schedule so I can make it to my son’s high school…
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