My heart ached and sang with recognition through every beautiful, tragic word of this. I wish we could all do better by you and your beautiful daughter and each other and everything.
Love your final paragraph! Absolutely a common struggle trauma survivors deal with, and it's so isolating feeling like you can't be honest. (I find it especially hard w/ coworkers.)
Such beautiful and true words, Elizabeth.
This is such an important message for anyone who hasn't gone through this experience.
I often decide in a split second on how to answer someone when they ask how many children I have--assuming that I do have children.
If I feel a connection or think I'll interact with them again, I'll say two--an earth son and a spirit son.
I let their discomfort settle but then always end up saying something to make them feel better, so I get that.
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Best of luck with your conference and many joyful moments with your daughter. ❤️
Thank you so much, there are no easy answers to those questions ❤️ sending you warm and healing thoughts!
I think the answers change as we do.
Sending warm hugs to you!
This is so beautiful, Elizabeth--and so is Carolyn, and so are you. Also, congratulations on Sewanee!!
thank you so much, Jeannine!
thank you for sharing this, and congrats on the Sewanee scholarship - how exciting!
thanks, Brendan!!
Beautiful! Your writing and Carolyn’s smile!
My heart ached and sang with recognition through every beautiful, tragic word of this. I wish we could all do better by you and your beautiful daughter and each other and everything.
thank you, Jennifer <3
Love your final paragraph! Absolutely a common struggle trauma survivors deal with, and it's so isolating feeling like you can't be honest. (I find it especially hard w/ coworkers.)
It's SO hard <3
I love you dearly and I am so thankful you wrote all of it down.