11/05/2025
What you see - we’re doing it ✅
What you don’t see - is HOW we’re doing it❗️
It took me 5 months to post this.
Five months of silence, shame, guilt, anger, and tears.
Five months of holding it all in - and realizing how heavy it is to keep hiding a massive piece of our life.
Despite the fragility of this chapter, I feel a deep need to speak.
Because the pain that walks beside the hugs, encouragement, and love - it’s real. And when I name it out loud, I can finally breathe a little deeper.
Yes, I have the knowledge and experience to guide others through loss, change, and suffering.
But even with all that, I still get lost. I still search for answers. I still cry while driving, break down in the middle of a store, or go silent with people I trust.
I hear “You’re doing the best you can” …and still, I find myself asking:
- Can I do more?
- Can I gather more resources - from the school system, the medical field, from friends who are psychotherapists?
- What are the newest strategies for mental health support?
And the hardest part:
Accepting my own vulnerability in this.
Me - the one who helps others - unable to say the words aloud, stuck in my throat for months.
So here it is. A moment of truth.
From me - a mother, a guide, a human being:
🍀 When life and health shift drastically, it’s not enough to have “solutions.”
It’s not enough to ask for help.
It’s not enough to know you’re strong.
You still feel it all - the grief, the rage, the hope, the exhaustion.
You ride emotional rollercoasters. You witness parts of yourself, the system, and your community that overwhelm your nervous system.
And yet! You keep going 📣
You smile. You cook. You drive. You work. You show up.
You love. You live. You try.
To all of you moving through pain and uncertainty -
I see you 🔻
Just as I’m learning to truly see myself in all of this.
My admiration for what you overcome each day is beyond words.
I’m breathing out with you 🫂
To all the fathers, mothers, aunties, grandparents -
To every child navigating a diagnosis in a world that often doesn’t understand -
You are the superheroes I believe in!
Thank you for existing ❤️❤️❤️