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  • The Mother I Remember: When Pain Distorts Personality

    The Mother I Remember: When Pain Distorts Personality

    I lost my mom way too soon. She succumbed first to breast cancer and then to esophageal cancer, and her last months were very rough. In her final year, we shared a moment I will never forget. It embodied the mom I loved so much — full of life, funny, and always up for a…

  • The Black Butterfly: How Healing in Relationship Flows Both Ways

    The Black Butterfly: How Healing in Relationship Flows Both Ways

    A small black butterfly pressed into my hands by a child I came to serve became something far greater — a quiet reminder that love and healing move in both directions.

  • For the Sake of the Children

    For the Sake of the Children

    “Consistent, nonjudgmental love transcends cultures.And when it does,something extraordinary can happen.We begin to see the childnot only as a survivor,but as someone rising,someone remembering who she is,not who she was told to be.” Susan Ernst — Called to Serve, Standing with Survivors and Protecting Children Still at Risk. What I Have Witnessed Working with the…