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My proudest moment is the day I chose to overcome my fear and say yes to a new urban adventure.One day I was struck hard by my realization that I was well into the middle-aged stage of life and I knew I was stuck. Questioning how to go about adding meaningful and satisfying years to m …

My Dearest Moxie Girl,Before you came, I had the perfect birthing plan that looked like this: we will have you at the birthing center so we can have a water birth. I wanted a water birth for many reasons but ultimately, I wanted your mommalisa to be in the water with us, catch you, bring you up to …

"My proudest moment is when I took a year off school and moved to Paris on my own!My first few years of college were a struggle. I didn't know what I wanted to study, how best to focus my time, or how to balance life as a working student. All my friends were graduating and had plans for life after c …

My proudest moment is when my little brother walked my Marathon with me.In 2016, I was 10 years old and my little brother Damien was seven. I was going to walk my third Marathon and Damien was going to attempt his first. During my past marathons, Damien would sit in the support vehicle and only walk …

"My proudest moment is saving my own life from becoming quadriplegic, in spite of multiple doctors telling me they could not find anything wrong with me.I have lived with chronic, debilitating neck and back pain for seven years. Before my third spinal fusion surgery in May 2019, I had already been p …

"My proudest moment is when I chose life over taking my own.It was Christmas morning, I was 13 years old and a freshman in high school, when an older cousin raped me. I was visiting my mother, who was staying with that cousin at the time. Estranged from her at birth due to her drug use, these rare v …

"My proudest moment is being a mom and supporting other moms. Vaginal, natural, medicated, un-medicated, in a hospital, in home, at a birthing center, in your car on the way to the hospital, via c-section - all births are beautiful and a miracle and each one is challenging and hard in their own …

"My proudest moment is making it to the top of Texas and taking my first solo road trip adventure!I started planning this trip about six months prior. It was one of those trips I kept waiting for another person to be able to go on, and so I kept putting it off again and again. I finally decided that …

My proudest moment is embracing my voice."Ever since I was a young boy, I always struggled with finding my voice. As a queer Latino living in a predominantly LatinX community, speaking aloud about my identity was not always a walk in the park. I mean any ten-year-old would find it hard to defen …

"As the years go by, my proudest moment changes. Which is a wonderful thing to be able to say really. That means there is constant growth happening, and to me, that's pretty important. Being a parent means we witness growth happen on the regular. Things change as the times go on and the one thing th …