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 post is by Kate. I was raised in a conservative, evangelical Christian household in a medium-sized town in a semi-rural part of New England. Growing up, I was taught (among a great many other . . .
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what I want you to know: the fistula epidemic
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 post is by Hope, who blogs about her life in Niger here. The idea here is that when we share our personal stories, we bring greater compassion and awareness to the unique issues that we individually face. . . .
what I want you to know: the humbling of a breastfeeding snob
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 post is by Abbie Rumbach, who blogs at The Kids Made Me Fat. I was never very good at pregnancy. Sure, I guess it all turned out all right. The pregnancies always achieved the desired results - a baby. . . .
what I want you to know: the impact of adoption loss
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 post is by an anonymous reader. I fell to my knees onto the floor of the hotel's Berber carpeting and cried out to God. I had no idea five months ago when I signed on to adopt domestically that my heart would . . .
what I want you to know: cutting
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 post is by an anonymous reader. My road down self injury started with a diagnosis of depression when I was 14 and a prescription that didn't work. I tried cutting because I had heard about it as a . . .
what I want you to know: the legacy of growing up in foster care
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 post is by LT, who blogs about her life after aging out of foster care. When I was in foster care, I felt so different from the rest of the world. I knew I was different….how could I not. I did not have a . . .
what I want you to know: pressumptions about single moms
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 post is by an anonymous reader. If you are new around here, this is usually a weekly series, but for the next few weeks it will be a daily feature. I'm a single mom. I've never . . .
what I want you to know: adopting an older child
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 post is by the author of the blog Last Mom. If you are new around here, this is usually a weekly series, but for the next few weeks it will be a daily feature. My husband and I adopted . . .
what I want you to know: married to the ministry
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 post is by Claire. I sometimes feel invisible. You don’t always see me. You don’t think I’m a faithful supporter of the work of my husband’s ministry. It's our ministry, but sometimes he's the only . . .
what I want you to know: cancer at 24
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 post is by Andrea Mayhew. At 24 I was single,going out with friends and living a carefree life. It was December of 2002 and all of sudden my high school sweetheart came back in my life and we were . . .
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