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Dear Cycle Breaker,

Dear Cycle Breaker,

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Hi. I just wanted to say that I’m proud of you. I know the work is hard. I know changing patterns and learning new ways of doing, and being is hard. But look at you. You’re doing it. You recognized an unhealthy pattern. You decided it ends with you. You are healing future generations with your bravery. And I know you get sad sometimes. Because it’s hard. And you feel alone. You feel an immense weight of responsibility on your…

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The Most Important Parenting Lesson I’ve Learned

The Most Important Parenting Lesson I’ve Learned

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I can still remember so clearly the single most difficult day of being a mother (so far). I can remember this day so vividly and just thinking about it brings me right back. It was the day I made a decision to break the cycle of what I grew up around: impatience. Let me explain. On this day, Julia was about four months old and in the throws of the withdrawal process for her seizure medication she had been on…

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