Amanda and Sam met in Colorado, eventually getting married in 2017, after moving to Edmonton, Alberta, in Canada. Sam worked as a manager at a climbing gym before the pandemic, while Amanda, a registered social worker, had worked as an addiction counselor with youth experiencing substance use and mental health-related concerns. Through her profession, Amanda had been exposed to the […]
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again […]
“This was not your fault. This will never be your fault, no matter how many different ways someone tries to tell you it was.” -Angela Miller, from You Are the Mother of All Mothers When Daniela became pregnant with her first child, Calvin, in the spring of 2019, she was over the moon ecstatic. As the manager of an infant […]
Sometimes the world seems against you The journey may leave a scar But scars can heal and reveal just Where you are -From Disney’s Moana When Nicole and Andrew found out they were expecting their first child, Amelia, they were filled with excited anticipation over what this new stage in their lives would hold for them. They always knew they […]
When Kavitha first immigrated from India to Arizona in 2014 for her husband’s work, she thought this would mark the biggest transition in her life. Not only was she leaving behind a family, culture, and life she had always known, but she had just given birth to her first child, Uday. On top of navigating life in a new country […]
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