12/18/2025
Speaking has become something I feel incredibly pulled towards.
Since the decline of my mom’s health through Aphasia (Dementia) I have watched her slowly lose her ability to speak more than a few words.
If you would’ve asked me a few years ago if I ever thought something like this could happen to my superhero of a mom, I would’ve laughed in yourself and told you that she is just too strong for that.
But the Universe has a funny way of bringing to us exactly what our Soul came to this Earth to experience and grow from.
For my mom - that was loss of communication in the form of speech. Now - she still finds plenty of other ways to communicate whether it is through her thousands of little squirrel videos and pictures or through emojis. She is still her silly, quirky, beautiful self.
But to watch this happen to my mom has hurt. To watch someone you love no longer able to communicate their thoughts, feelings, wants, desires… it’s incredibly painful.
And so - my healing in my own world through all of this has been turning my pain and her pain into purpose: speaking for those that can’t.
It feels incredibly full circle. And somehow, someway I thank the Universe for all of its wild ways of bringing us much closer to our hearts - through the grief, the pain, the confusion - it’s all a grand coming home to the Self.