Daughters of Sick Parents

you don’t have to fix everything ✨

My mom just turned 70! Eight years with stage IV metastatic breast cancer. First diagnosed in her early 40s in 1999. Didn’t know if we’d get to 70, but here we are.
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Takeaways: Every day is a gift. Illness is wild. Modern medicine is incredible. Some things don’t make sense. We’ll never know what it all means. Cancer blows. But cancer communities are powerful.
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Pain and joy exist at once.
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Sending love to anyone who lost their mom. Who is grieving their mom. Who wants to be a mom. Who struggles with anything related to the word mom. It’s all valid. And if your mom is here, give her a call 📞.
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all smiles (and frowns, because ) for the 5K Walk & Remember. love seeing who people are honoring through the custom shirts, signs people make, and conversations being had… dog bandanas said “grief is ruff.” this year I volunteered at the raffle table, took pics of people crossing the finish line, and hopped on stage to MC the raffle. it’s surprisingly wholesome to see people coming together. see you next year! ✨

give back without leaving the house! x have partnered up, TODAY they are giving 25% of order / delivery to our house grief camp for kids. I’ll be ordering… join me!

already dead 💀…a must-see for those in LA 🎤😂

ok but DOES he know I do grief camps? ☠️🏕️🎉

this and so much more! thanks for the tips and happy t-gives to all 🦃💛

to the peeps with dead dads: keep going. I see you.
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(but I don’t see your dads, because they died.) ✨
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years ago on 4.7 my dad died and my world changed. today I think of him, but also of the incredible people who I have met through grief communities all over the world. if you have a person close to you who died and you have all the feels, I see you 🤍.

this beautiful post is about motherhood… but as I looked and as I pondered, I felt it could be / is also about grief. everything is in this life, really. is it not? I feel both touched and saddened. i keep looking… it’s like I’m at a museum but it’s just my phone. how does this make you feel? thanks for stirring up the emotions this am in a way that is provoking and yet calm 💜💜

being yourself makes sense to me. but what does this really look like? as I transition through a new life change, some suggestions I’ve received lately include: listening to the music you loved when you were growing up, showing up places by yourself (even if a friend is coming in an hour, owning that first hour by yourself,) cooking a recipe you haven’t had since childhood etc. how do you “be” you? how do you show your weird?

This is everything. Fun fact, I have this quote engraved on my iPad. Which is really like the modern day version of carving your initials into a tree with blood. Right?