Hearing Out Life Drama Blog

I was heading out the door to the post office when a family member asked if I would pick up milk while I was out.

Normally that would have been a simple favor, but that particular day I already had several stops planned and was carrying a lot of st...

I didn’t know postpartum rage was even a thing. I had heard of postpartum depression, of course. I’d heard of “baby blues.” But rage? That sounded too extreme, too shameful to say out loud.

And then it happened to me.

In the first few weeks after m...

I remember standing in the grocery store line, trying to hold it together.

My phone buzzed in my hand. The glucose alarm was going off again. I was texting quickly, asking if he’d grabbed a Jolly Rancher, hoping he had seen the alert in time. My min...

When my father-in-law died suddenly of a heart attack, everything shifted in an instant.

There was shock. There was grief. There were so many emotions moving through the room that it was hard to know where to begin.

And in the middle of all of that...

I have a friend who sometimes says, “I’m having an anxiety day.”

She trusts me enough to say that out loud. She doesn’t expect me to solve it or make it go away. She just wants me to be there.

And over time, I’ve learned something important.

Su...

There’s something sacred about the quiet that follows a baby shower.

The streamers come down, the cupcakes disappear, and you’re left surrounded by diapers, soft onesies, and the promise of a new beginning. It looks like abundance. But sometimes, w...