Hello and welcome to Warmer. Like many, I’ve faced more than my share of hardship: growing up with what seemed to me to be an abusive parent, losing a parent young, enduring a 15-year abusive marriage, infertility and IVF, raising twins, caring for and losing a spouse to terminal illness, losing a 24-year-old child with health challenges, and navigating my own disabilities. I’ve lived through so much grief and crisis that “normal life” once felt unfamiliar. Professionally, I’ve devoted my adult life to helping others—abused and neglected children, survivors of trafficking, victims of domestic violence, and foster children facing extreme challenges, as well as parents coping with the loss of custody. Through it all, I’ve learned that while life can be unimaginably hard, survival and even growth are possible.