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Seven thin(g/k)s I explored this week

Hello dear reader,

I’m writing this having entered motherhood this season. I have detached from labor & delivery, which, rather than being a separate chapter in my book, has felt like a wholly different book of its own. Not a pleasant one. The birth experience was traumatic for me, indescribably so, the entirety of which I am still oscillating between…