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Continue reading →: Sitting With My FatherMany of you have been following along and have seen that 2026 has been a difficult year for my family. Some of you may even know just how difficult it has been. But even fewer of you know what we walked through in the year before 2026 had even come…
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Continue reading →: Healing While It Was Still HappeningThere is a version of healing that makes a beautiful story. Something terrible happens. You get out. The danger ends. You heal. I wish I could tell my story that neatly. I can’t. I began healing while some of what I was healing from was still happening. Leaving my marriage…
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Continue reading →: When It Was Finally Safe to RememberThere is a document stored on my computer that I never imagined I would share publicly. It is eighteen pages long. It isn’t a journal. It isn’t something I wrote for a blog. It wasn’t written to inspire anyone, teach anyone, or tell a compelling story. It was written because…
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