What a year this has been. It has been filled with grief, anxiety, hope, loss, joy, fear and empowerment. It has been a year that has taught me so much and a time in my life I feel like I am finally grieving, processing and working through some of my deeply rooted shame stories.

In the midst of all of the shared distress and anxiety, Jordan and I welcomed our daughter, Everly, about a week before the country shut down. Becoming a new parent — something that is already such a complex swirl of emotions with a thin candy coating of sleep deprivation — is such an amazing and overwhelming shift in life.