Our Stories

Creating my Go Fund Me campaign and articulating our stories was like jumping barefoot on a trampoline jump pad of broken glass. Going back through my lived experiences, of having the father of my children, whom I remain married and separated to, both cancel me from my 19 year life and ruin me financially was worse than anticipated.

March 2020 is when many mark the shift from the “before times” to the “after times,” given it was the first shelter in place order they experienced, as humanity grappled with a novel Coronavirus. But my after times began ten months prior, in May 2019, following my first born daughter attempting suicide, at the end of her 8th grade year, which tipped off the long overdue unravelling of my 16 year marriage. And her plea for help was heard and provided me an awakening, that led to my metamorphosis and hers! We are pupa digesting our insides these last few years and with your help can finally emerge from the Chrysalis.

There will be no community
without first communing.

~Nora Bateson