My Superhero: A KBG Journey

My #HonestMotherhood intro to our life and journey through the diagnoses of KBG; an ultra rare genetic deletion syndrome.

It’s easy to share our motherhood journey when the days go well, and even when they are filled with the ‘regular’ daily struggles of raising tiny humans with huge emotions and growing personalities. But what about the BIG stuff? The GIANTS. The things that people can easily misunderstand and misinterpret?

(Over) sharing, particularly on social media, is certainly not my go-to in life and maybe that is because we see its negative effects everywhere. Yet, writing and putting feelings and experiences into words, is. And perhaps worse than oversharing, is suffering in silence while paralyzed by fear of the unknowns that come with vulnerability.

Showing the beautiful amongst the chaos is something I have felt called to at various stages in life. While I endeavor to do it, it does not necessarily come easily, however. I am also aware that finding ways and words to accurately depict and communicate the ever-growing gratefulness and never-ending love, of motherhood along with the simultaneous collision of struggles that come with this inherently important position is not just challenging for me, but many others as well. Sometimes, we must simply plunge…