When people hear my story and that I didn’t know I was pregnant for 4 months, often times the conversation switches to abortion. People who are anti abortion suddenly question their belief, because before talking to me, they didn’t understand or believe a woman couldn’t know she was pregnant for so long. I didn’t think for one second I was pregnant up until the day I found out. What I now know is PCOS, caused irregular periods all my life. Sometimes going months without them. I have issues with food and gluten intolerances. Anything I eat makes me bloat. Put those two together and how could I know?? I looked…

I figured this was an appropriate time to come back and fill you in on what’s been going in our lives since May is Mental Health Awareness Month. The beginning of this semester was easy for me to push out a bunch of content but as the semester went on school required all my brain power. And taking care of Rowen’s needs. As a lot of you know by now, Rowen is with me 99% of the time. His dad is 100% involved, his job just has a difficult work schedule and he lives in Atlanta. But if it weren’t for his job, I wouldn’t be able to stay home…

Every day, you have a choice. You can wake up and make it a good day, or you can find something to be pissed off about. For most of my late teens and early 20’s, I woke up pissed off. Automatically hating the world and everything in it. I was drowning in a victim mentality and drowning my sorrows in alcohol because of trauma. By 23, I started to wise up. I still don’t know if it was a maturity thing or events in my life that drove me there and doing therapy. I realized I didn’t have to be such an asshole all the time just because my life…

We’ve all probably been through some type of traumatic event in our life. Whether it be the tragic death of a young friend in high school, a family member passing, a car accident, natural disaster, sexual abuse, an abusive relationship, losing a job, rape, COVID — the list is long. A lot of us don’t even realize we’ve experienced trauma until years have gone by and we realize we’ve just been on autopilot. Not really “living.”, just going through the motions. It wasn’t until the last couple years I had my “aha” moment and wanted to stop feeling numb from trauma all the time. Everyone’s ability to handle stress and…