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Follow Your Path
When I reached out to Carly to be featured on the blog I was not entirely sure of what direction I would go, or how I would even begin to summarize everything in a way that didn’t seem like I was rambling on, but one message remained abundantly clear, and stood out to...
Parenting Through Grief
At the tender age of 17, I faced the heart-wrenching loss of my beloved mother after a four-year battle with breast cancer. Fifteen years later, I stood at the beginning of a new chapter as I welcomed my own baby girl into this world. For me, pregnancy became an...
Why We Need to Talk About It
Postpartum is not ONE SIZE FITS ALL. I believe everyone’s journey through postpartum is unique. I had 3 kids in 4 years and each of my postpartum experiences were very different. What I have learned is that postpartum is not a linear progression into healing....
When Mommy Went Manic
My husband came home from work one afternoon to find me buck-naked, sitting in our front yard’s flower bed with our two-year-old son, and having a casual conversation with our gardener. Note: I’m not opposed to naturism, as we live in Santa Cruz—the land o’ the...
Have Your Cake and Eat it Too
Every pregnancy is different. As I snuggle our sweet baby boy, now three weeks old, I debate already if I could do this all over again or do I really miss sleep that much more. For me personally one thing that would be a guarantee in another pregnancy is Gestational...
Elin’s Eyes on the Prize
This is my two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Elin (Ee-Lin). Her favorite color is yellow. She loves ballet and going to her "Kids Morning Out" preschool. She also loves to play with baby dolls, Barbie dolls, Legos, and her five-and-a-half-year-old sister, Nola. Elin...
Detach with Love
This is a phrase that has taken me 10 years to truly understand and to practice. You may recognize this as a core component of codependency recovery or you’ve been to Al-Anon. Maybe both. I am the latter. My father is a high-functioning alcoholic. I don’t know his...
A Marathon Not a Sprint
When my husband and I married in 2011, he was an active cyclist. It was nothing for him to go ride a peloton for 3 hours on any given afternoon or a Saturday morning. Feeling like I needed to find my outlet, I started running a 3-mile path in our neighborhood almost...
Cooking with Kids
Hi! My name is Sarah and I am a wife, a mother, a nurse anesthetist and someone who spends a lot of time in the kitchen! Almost nine years ago, I married my high school sweetheart, Barrett. As we settled into married life I really enjoyed getting in the kitchen and...
A Piece of Me
I was sitting in my bathroom in August of 2019 staring at this pregnancy test sitting on my cabinet. I couldn’t believe the word staring back at me, “Pregnant”. This wasn’t part of my plan. My first pregnancy had been traumatic to say the least. I had gotten...
Imagine a space where the question ‘why does no one talk about this’ disappears. A space where you’ll never feel alone again in the journey of Parenthood. A space where everyday women and men come to shout from the rooftops what parenthood is like behind the scenes. Welcome to No One Talks About where we talk about ALL of the things that no one talks about as it relates to Parenthood.
We are building a community of everyday women and men who are tired of asking themselves, ‘why does no one talk about this?’ If you have a story to tell we would love for you to join our community! The more we share the less alone we will all feel. If telling your story helps just one person then it was worth it.