The People You Meet in the Trenches
I had just been through something that was terrifying, uncontrollable, and incredibly rare with my son when I met my ride-or-die mom friends. At that time, I had never in my life felt so alone navigating this unexpected twist. Ian and I both deal with trauma in different ways, so I had someone who was in the same dark hole as me, but who needed a different kind of rope to pull himself out. It was like in the blink of an eye, I went from the normal, sleep-deprived and love-drunk mom of a 4-month-old, to sitting on the other side of something I still can't comprehend and barely registering how life and my outlook could change so quickly. How I would now forever be in the after of the event. With a new lens for life, motherhood, and who I was as a person. I guess life is the moments, and every moment is an after of another moment, simple and sweet or heavy and complex, so we were really just experiencing life. But man alive, that was something. I'm still, two years later, not wil...
