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When You Feel Like the Most Stressed Out Mom

April 24, 2018

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Heather Brown and blogs over at My Life Well Loved  Photo by: Brooke Cagle  Have you had one of those days recently where it feels like everything is crashing in on you, and felt you were the most . . .

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When Your Father Is Homeless

April 10, 2018

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by anonymous.    Photo by: Ben Hershey  Whenever the news reports bad weather, I think of my father. When everyone is talking about going snowboarding and the latest storm bringing in the fresh . . .

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What I want you to know about teen dating abuse

June 16, 2017

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post was submitted by an anonymous reader. Photo Credit: Sam Headland When I was 14 years old, I met the young man who would be my boyfriend for the next 5 years. He was my third . . .

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What I want you to know about find my own way through lupus and becoming my own advocate

June 10, 2017

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post was submitted by Charlywww.barefootinthechapel.com. Photo by: Freestocks.org "Sitting in the doctor's office while she told me I had "MCTD," I remember thinking how much . . .

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What I want you to know about living with a mental illness and being arrested for it

June 2, 2017

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post was submitted by Jolene. Photo by: Volkan Olmez  I am 33 years old and on disability for a mental diagnoses and up until 2015 I had never been discriminated against . . .

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What I want you to know about growing up with a Vietnam Veteran for a father

May 30, 2017

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post was submitted by Amy Bowman. Photo by: Thomas Tucker My dad was a living, breathing ghost in our house until I was an adult, when he finally began to "wake up" from . . .

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What I want you to know about talking to people with different beliefs

May 26, 2017

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post was submitted by Alex. Photo by: Aaron Burden  "I was brought up Christian, “came out” as non-Christian in my late teens, then re-evaluated and found God in my . . .

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What I want you to know: Letter to a Pregnant Friend

May 22, 2017

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post was submitted by Melissa Uhles. Photo by: Janko Ferlic  Dear Soon-to-be-Mama, I just read this book from the library called, ""The Mask of Motherhood"". I . . .

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What I want you to know: Happy to be child-free

May 20, 2017

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post was submitted by Brittany. Photo by: Andrew Branch  We had big news to share with my parents, so we invited them over for dinner. I was nervous, but obviously . . .

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What I want you to know: an open letter of closure to my birth mother

May 16, 2017

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post was submitted by Brittaney. Photo by: Alvaro Serrano  Dear Beverly: an open letter of closure to my birth mother I have been searching for you for the last fifteen . . .

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