Author: Emily

Last week my uncle passed away.  It seems weird to move forward without acknowledging it, but at the same time it doesn’t even feel real. He fought a very valiant fight against pancreatic cancer and made all of us extremely proud by the way he carried himself from his diagnosis until the very end.  He’s…

We all can recount those traditional vows that many use to start off marriage: “…In sickness and in health…”. Battling sickness in a marriage is a huge undertaking, but we agreed to love each other through it in our marriage covenant.   But what about mental illness?  It’s not that we conveniently leave out that…

I will never forget the surgeon pulling us into a consult room and saying the words that everyone hopes they never have to hear when they are being given a post-surgery update on a loved one – “we found the tumor to be cancerous”. It was in that moment that everything stopped.  I looked around…

My mom stayed at our house for the first two weeks after we had Cove.  She happened to catch me crying one day and immediately knew that things weren’t right.  She suffered postpartum depression when she had me.  With this foreknowledge, she was able to share with me the things that she felt during her…

If you are currently experiencing thoughts of self harm or suicide, this post may be triggering to you.  One night I finally began to let show how miserable I was. James asked me if I was ok and I immediately burst into tears. This was maybe a week and a half after being home from…