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Letting myself be seen, Jenn's Caregiver Notes graphic
LatestJuly 4, 2026Jenn's Caregiver Notes

Letting myself be seen.

I spent years asking the world to truly see my children. Launch week was the moment I finally let it see me.

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Winter Night, painting by Ed Rocha, deep blues and violet with gold light
June 5, 2026Jenn's Caregiver Notes

Winter Night

I bought a painting called Winter Night. There is a swirl in the center like a tornado, and what I learned looking at it is how you find your center again when everything is moving too fast.

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Meg's quote about Fighting for Their Lives, Jenn's Caregiver Notes graphic
May 29, 2026Jenn's Caregiver Notes

Mental health is not a casserole disease.

Meg sat down at a lunch counter, opened this book, and almost broke down in tears on the first page. She's been navigating her family's mental health journey for years. What she said about this book stopped me.

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Early reader Melissa Hess quote about Fighting for Their Lives
May 23, 2026Jenn's Caregiver Notes

What early readers see.

Something I did not expect when I shared the manuscript of Fighting for Their Lives with early readers: how often someone would say back to me the thing I most needed to hear.

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What I wish I'd known, Jenn's Caregiver Notes graphic
May 19, 2026Jenn's Caregiver Notes

What I wish I'd known.

There are things I could not have been told at the start of the hardest years of my family's life. Not because no one knew them. But because some truths can only be earned.

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