The ripples of this raw and vulnerable share will be vast. You remind me how powerful our voices are, your writing is utterly captivating. I was you as I read, I felt it all.
Holding you in the deepest tenderness, love and gratitude 🙏 ❤️
So powerful. I’m blown away. Thank you for sharing with us. Sending your daughter, you, your family prayers for continued healing, strength and connection. ❤️
Love this! I too experienced a close encounter… and had many moments since that keep bringing me back to gratitude for what I have here and now. Thank you for sharing your story <3
Cried through the whole thing and was there with you in every moment. I could spend the rest of my life reading poignant, beautiful, heartbreaking writing life this, my own daughter’s sleeping breath the perfect background music.
Thank you for the courage to live and share this. Can’t wait to read the rest.
So powerful the way you’ve captured this. So much I relate to about the medical system - the separation, the way being a ‘patient’ is like a degradation of self. Thank you for your writing.
Every word of this was potent and beautiful and harrowing. Thank you for sharing. Sending fierce love and prayer to you, your daughter and whole family 🤍
you are so incredibly fierce and fantastic. sending your family lots of love. thank you for sharing your message for us. it hit right where it needed to.
Mother to mother, human to human, thank you.
The ripples of this raw and vulnerable share will be vast. You remind me how powerful our voices are, your writing is utterly captivating. I was you as I read, I felt it all.
Holding you in the deepest tenderness, love and gratitude 🙏 ❤️
Human to human is why I write. Thank you so much for this reflection, Diane. Made my heart swell.
I couldn’t have said it more beautifully.. as a mother and a midwife, I also felt every word and ripple..🙏🏼
So powerful. I’m blown away. Thank you for sharing with us. Sending your daughter, you, your family prayers for continued healing, strength and connection. ❤️
Thank you, Brit 🙏🏼
Powerful, enraging, heartbreaking, hopeful… Your words made me feel EVERYTHING. Thank you, Britt. 💖
Thank YOU, Tiff, for holding my family through this tender time.
Love this! I too experienced a close encounter… and had many moments since that keep bringing me back to gratitude for what I have here and now. Thank you for sharing your story <3
The here and now -- yes. My little fam is stuck in a near-perpetual state of gratitude right now.
THANK YOU for reminding us 🤍
Thank you so much for share this letter.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I pray for tour family with love
Cried through the whole thing and was there with you in every moment. I could spend the rest of my life reading poignant, beautiful, heartbreaking writing life this, my own daughter’s sleeping breath the perfect background music.
Thank you for the courage to live and share this. Can’t wait to read the rest.
I cried at your “thank you for the courage” 😭
This post took my breath away. This was the most powerful collection of words, feelings, lessons, truths that I have read in a very long time.
I wish you and your daughter (and your entire family) only love and health.
This moved me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing.
Thank you so very much for reading.
So powerful the way you’ve captured this. So much I relate to about the medical system - the separation, the way being a ‘patient’ is like a degradation of self. Thank you for your writing.
Thank you for naming this so candidly, Lauren. Thank you for reading <3.
Powerfully written and said. ✨🙏🏼
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Oh wow. Just, wow. So powerful.
Speechless. I will be holding out for part two.
Every word of this was potent and beautiful and harrowing. Thank you for sharing. Sending fierce love and prayer to you, your daughter and whole family 🤍
Maya, thank you. Thank you. ❤️❤️❤️
you are so incredibly fierce and fantastic. sending your family lots of love. thank you for sharing your message for us. it hit right where it needed to.
So very glad it struck a chord. Hope Part II ties it all together in a way that makes even more sense ❤️