Candor

Cultivating a safe space for hard truths; motherhood, mental health, and personal and professional growth.

Raising boys is chaos and comedy, loud and lovely… often all at once. Think emotional unraveling meets physical mayhem; life perched on the edge of an existential crisis or a minor concussion. Here you’ll find stories of honest reflections on my sweet, feral children, motherhood, parenting, mental health, and postpartum. Within this "Mothering" section, you'll also find the series "His First 15 Days." This is a story about my firstborn son's time in the NICU after birth. While there are certainly heavy moments, this isn’t a sad story. It’s one of uncertainty, resilience, and the surreal experience of starting our parenting journey in a place where joy and fear collide, and where sorrow and solace quietly coexist. MaKai is now a thriving, wild toddler, but his earliest days were anything but simple.