The Life I Fought For
Courtney-The Life I Fought For, Jamie, Erika Glover, Natasha Kenton, Mary J. Brayton, Helen Bradford-Swire, Vaughan | Becoming MomPersonal Essays about creativity, motherhood, loss, and what happens when the life you planned falls apart—and the life you rebuild is deeper, truer, and more beautiful than you imagined.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 45 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 10 days ago |
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Everyone Thought We Were Parenting Him Wrong. Then We Got His Diagnosis.
October is both Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month and ADHD Awareness Month. This week’s guest writer’s motherhood journey includes both.
As a parent who is living parts of this story in real time, Valérie’s willingness to share he...
The Poem That Found Its Way to the Parthenon
AI-generated image because, of course, I forgot to take a single photo.
I was sitting in an Arby’s parking lot, heading out of town with my family for fall break at our cabin, when I got the DM.
Someone wanted to read a poem I’d written t...
The Birth I Didn’t Plan For
Today is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day, and as those of you who know my story know, this one means a lot to me. If this day holds a special significance for you, too, my heart goes out to you. I’m sending so much love your way....
When The Thing That Helps Stops Helping
What I learned when something that got me through one hard season made the next one harder.
Subconsciously, they were probably the reason I even went on date one with my now husband. I’d always drawn a hard line when it came to dating some...
I Dreamed of a Big Family
One of the things I’m learning as I read through the guest essays being submitted for this Plans Rewritten series is that in some cases, a plan doesn’t disappear completely. Sometimes, we get some version of the thing we wanted—it just ends...
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Singer-songwriter & memoirist writing about motherhood, creativity, loss, and plans rewritten.
𝙎𝒆𝙞𝒛𝙚𝒅: 𝙇𝒊𝙛𝒆 𝑰𝙣𝒕𝙚𝒓𝙧𝒖𝙥𝒕𝙚𝒅 is a collection of personal essays and reflections spanning a decade of parenting a child with epilepsy, exploring the grace found in uncertainty and the quiet resilience of a life that refuses to follow a script. Welcome.
Holistic nervous system + gut coach for moms 40+ of young kids. You're not too much. You're dysregulated. Lived it. Now I teach it. Sourdough. 90s hip hop. No fucks given. ✌🏼
I'm a CO mom & wife but native to VA🤍 We pushed through the trenches of infertility for 4 years before being blessed with our son. After a recent ruptured ectopic ended in a hysterectomy, I'm here to be a voice for warriors still in the trenches🧡
Creating stories about the families and communities that hold us together.
Financial/legal journo & news editor. Here, writing about our IVF journey - all the highs and lows and everything in between.
Essays on motherhood, fertility, identity, and the bumps along the way that shape us into the mothers we’re becoming. For women still figuring it all out.
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