Maternity & Family Session Orange County, California Back in the beginning of June, I introduced my Compassion Session initiative on social media. The initiative was borne out of a desire to come alongside a fellow mother to celebrate her life, and her story: to help her feel seen, valued, and loved. In the wake of this year’s protests against […]

Maternity & Family Session Orange County, California Back in the beginning of June, I introduced my Compassion Session initiative on social media. The initiative was borne out of a desire to come alongside a fellow mother to celebrate her life, and her story: to help her feel seen, valued, and loved. In the wake of this year’s protests against […]

Important conversations are happening, and need to continue happening. Some, for the first time are waking up from a deep sleep to the reality of systematic racial division and oppression against the Black Community. I know that I have. I’ve taken a breath. I realize that I am lucky to still be breathing, because so […]

Important conversations are happening, and need to continue happening. Some, for the first time are waking up from a deep sleep to the reality of systematic racial division and oppression against the Black Community. I know that I have. I’ve taken a breath. I realize that I am lucky to still be breathing, because so […]

Compassion [ kuhm-pash-uhn ] noun: A feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering. Latin “com” meaning “together” and “passion” meaning “suffering.”  To suffer together. If there is anything this world needs right now, it is compassion. Despite the daily chaos, […]

Compassion [ kuhm-pash-uhn ] noun: A feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering. Latin “com” meaning “together” and “passion” meaning “suffering.”  To suffer together. If there is anything this world needs right now, it is compassion. Despite the daily chaos, […]

Hey mamas, I wanted to share with you this amazing free resource so generously created and shared by Lucy Song, fellow mama and incredibly talented designer over at Wander and Wonder Studio (@wanderandwonder.studio). Raising Little Allies – To – Be by Wander and Wonder Studio It is meant to be: “an incomplete guide for parents […]

Hey mamas, I wanted to share with you this amazing free resource so generously created and shared by Lucy Song, fellow mama and incredibly talented designer over at Wander and Wonder Studio (@wanderandwonder.studio). Raising Little Allies – To – Be by Wander and Wonder Studio It is meant to be: “an incomplete guide for parents […]

I believe I only began to understand the idea of sacrifice when I became a mother.  From the day that our flesh was combined, and I became their first home.  My heart grew larger, and beat faster to fill their veins.  Perhaps I do not understand and may never understand firsthand the terror of racist […]

I believe I only began to understand the idea of sacrifice when I became a mother.  From the day that our flesh was combined, and I became their first home.  My heart grew larger, and beat faster to fill their veins.  Perhaps I do not understand and may never understand firsthand the terror of racist […]

Me: Baby, do you notice any differences when you look at your friends? Aimee: Hmm . . . No, I don’t think so. (At this point I’m thinking I have to put this in a context that she would understand.  So, Disney Princesses, it is.) Me: Okay, how about Elsa?  Do you notice any differences […]

Me: Baby, do you notice any differences when you look at your friends? Aimee: Hmm . . . No, I don’t think so. (At this point I’m thinking I have to put this in a context that she would understand.  So, Disney Princesses, it is.) Me: Okay, how about Elsa?  Do you notice any differences […]

The world as we know it, is on fire. And at its epicenter, are black bodies. Black mothers, black children, black fathers, black families, black futures, black lives. For far too long, black lives and lives of people of color have been sacrificed, buried in forgotten graves of oppression, violence, and trauma shoveled over them […]

The world as we know it, is on fire. And at its epicenter, are black bodies. Black mothers, black children, black fathers, black families, black futures, black lives. For far too long, black lives and lives of people of color have been sacrificed, buried in forgotten graves of oppression, violence, and trauma shoveled over them […]