You Don't Heal By Getting Over It

The pain won't get smaller, but your life can get bigger

My daughter was five weeks old when I had a panic attack in a hospital room. She had developed a high fever, and we’d ended up back in the same hospital where she was born. While the nurses tried to get her pulse, the machine kept malfunctioning, beeping the exact tone I’d heard during my emergency C-section weeks earlier. My body recognized the sound b…