Amy Says…
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This weekend (Memorial Day) is the traditional start to the summer season in the USA. When I was a kid I remember this weekend being connected to a lot of things including whether or not it was okay to wear white clothes. That seems like an old fashioned idea now. Do people still do that?
I recently read that if you count the days on the calendar this year is the longest gap between memorial day and labor day. Have you heard that? Somebody should check. That’s a fun bit of random trivia.
There are two imperfect adulting stories in this week’s newsletter. Enjoy!
Infertility | Mixing Grief and Motherhood Hopes
Hope Alcocer
Some of us spend years building the perfect plan, and then have to move forward as life dismantles it piece by piece when we find ourselves staring out a hospital window, holding the wreckage, finally understanding something we couldn't have learned any other way. That is where Hope Alcocer found herself.
The mental health coach and author came to the conversation with a story she had never told publicly before: a four-year infertility journey that wound through two miscarriages, a twin pregnancy, a placental abruption, the death of her newborn daughter, and the death of her mother three days later. But the story is not really about loss, as devastating as that loss is. It is about what happens when the human impulse to control the outcome of your own life runs straight into the wall of reality, and what becomes possible on the other side of that collision.
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Relocation | An Unplanned International Move
tephanie Benedetto followed something harder to name. In 2022, she was living comfortably in Tampa Bay, Florida, renting a house with her partner of two years and their cat. Moving to Portugal, or anywhere in Europe, was not on her radar. Then something shifted inside her, and within two months, her entire life was reorganizing itself around a direction she hadn't chosen so much as received.
Her story is one of those that resists easy summary. It's part inner transformation, part immigration bureaucracy, part whirlwind romance, and part practical reckoning with the realities of dismantling a life and rebuilding it on another continent.
Stephanie Benedetto
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📕 🎧 Things Worth Your Time
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Hope suggests the book: The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
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