Posted on May 17, 2020May 17, 2020by Emily Youngblood
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…
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Posted on January 16, 2020January 16, 2020by Emily Youngblood
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…
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Posted on September 29, 2019September 29, 2019by Emily Youngblood
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…
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