“[…] hard feelings — especially shame — became a kind of dark secret. To express them was “rude”, to feel them was “weak”, and to dwell in them was “unhealthy.”

“All the baby books were for the baby. No one warned me that the biggest change in my new life as a mom would be me.”

“I’ve grown to embrace that my life is for living and living means… feeling. ALL the feelings.”

“I truly believe that if we can figure out how to believe in ourselves the way that we believe in others or people we have never even met, we could do anything that we put our minds to.”

“What I’ve learned is that I have to trust God’s timing, trust the process, and not let my own frenetic timing concept completely destroy the opportunity.”