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Stephanie’s Fight for Mental Health Awareness

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This story is a part of our Raw Motherhood series, a collection of true accounts from real moms. We hope these stories will help shed light on real issues, but we are not medical professionals and are not offering medical advice. If you are in need of immediate help or feel you could be a harm to yourself or others, please call 911.

My world completely changed when I found out I was pregnant.

It was May of 2001, and my husband and I were about to move from Minnesota to attend the Rhema Bible Training Center in Oklahoma. We’d been married for almost four years, but a baby wasn’t currently on my radar. And though I was excited to have a baby, I was sad that I wouldn’t be able to attend school because of my due date. [Read more…] about Stephanie’s Fight for Mental Health Awareness

What If You Don’t Love Being a Mom?

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What if you don’t love being a mom?

Those words rolled around in my head for days, maybe even weeks before I gathered enough courage to type them in the Google search bar. I thought my frustration and sadness was just a result of long days spent with a screaming baby, so I waited for my feelings to change. If I didn’t type those words, they wouldn’t be true, right? [Read more…] about What If You Don’t Love Being a Mom?

Morgan’s Heartbreaking Miscarriage and Mental Health Battle

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Morgan's emotional and raw story will resonate with anyone who knows what it's like to desire to become a mom. The secret of her devastating miscarriage, as well as her mental and physical ailments (bipolar II, fibromyalgia, and depression), have made her a strong and inspiring woman. If you're a mom, you wish to be a mom, or you're a mom to a child not on this earth, please know that you're not alone. This is a story from the Raw Motherhood series. #rawmotherhood #mentalillness #breakthestigma

This story is a part of our Raw Motherhood series, a collection of true accounts from real moms. We hope these stories will help shed light on real issues, but we are not medical professionals and are not offering medical advice. If you are in need of immediate help or feel you could be a harm to yourself or others, please call 911. miscarriage

I’m here to talk to you about something that no one really understands or talks about.

It’s that aisle of Target. The one that stares at you with the pastel baby blues and soft yellows. It’s the aisle that you have to face head on every time you need the electronics or toys. For most people, this aisle doesn’t matter. They put little to no thought into those tiny baby booties hanging off the hooks. But I have a secret. [Read more…] about Morgan’s Heartbreaking Miscarriage and Mental Health Battle

How To Choose Your Word Of The Year

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How to choose your word of the year - instead of resolutions for the new year, pick a Word of the Year! Rather than making a list of goals that may be unattainable, this post shares how you can frame your year around a word. Aim for personal growth and development next year. This is an awesome article on how to choose your word of the year.

I’m not a fan of New Year’s resolutions.

I’m a pretty practical and realistic person, and while I do have personal goals, I know my limits. I know that setting a goal to read the entire Bible in a whole year, lose XX lbs, turn digital, or run a marathon with no experience is setting myself up for failure.

I’m not saying that these things are impossible or unattainable, and I do think it’s important to dream big. But I also know what I want in life and how hard it can be to fall short of my goals.

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Kaitlyn’s Struggle with Postpartum Anxiety and Perinatal OCD

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Kaitlyn's true story of mothering with postpartum anxiety and perinatal OCD is a must-read! If you're a mom who's struggling, you're not alone. Learn about postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety. This is a story from the Raw Motherhood series. #rawmotherhood #anxiety #PMAD #mentalhealth #postpartum #OCD

This story is a part of our Raw Motherhood series, a collection of true accounts from real moms. We hope these stories will help shed light on real issues, but we are not medical professionals and are not offering medical advice. If you are in need of immediate help or feel you could be a harm to yourself or others, please call 911.

Postpartum anxiety hit me like a truck.

My twin boys were born 6 weeks prematurely and spent two weeks in the NICU. The time in the hospital gave me a bit of anxiety, but life was good after bringing my babies home. They slept four hours at a time and I began to relax more. [Read more…] about Kaitlyn’s Struggle with Postpartum Anxiety and Perinatal OCD