Heather B. Armstrong (1975–2023)
Författare till It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita
Om författaren
Heather B. Armstrong is one of the most popular "mommy bloggers" in the world and the New York Times bestselling author of It Sucked and Then I Cried. She lives in Salt Lake City with her two lovely daughters and their insane dog. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter @dooce.
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Verk av Heather B. Armstrong
It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita (2009) 334 exemplar
Things I Learned About My Dad: Humorous and Heartfelt Essays, edited by the creator ofwww.dooce.com (2008) — Redaktör — 85 exemplar
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But what made me sob openly was story after story of the unconditional love associated with Motherhood. FIRST: from her point of view. From the ways she tried to suffer silently to the eventual struggling through this new treatment to get better (on top of being a single Mom with a full-time job) for her girls. The way Heather writes about the desperation of Mothering her girls with unquantifiable love just spoke to my soul in ways I had never felt before.
But SECOND was the way she wrote about her own Mom and her journey watching her daughter's brain turn "off" for 15 minutes 10 separate times. The way her Mom describes Heather's courage, the way she witnesses Heather's journey, the way she answers Heather's calls and hold her hand...it's just something you have to read for yourself.
This book is definitely about depression and I encourage anyone who has struggled to understand a loved one who suffers from depression to read this book. Heather is such a gifted writer that you can FEEL her despair as she describes it. And then when life comes back to her again, you will feel it through her words in very visceral ways.
But to me - it also very much about Motherhood. It made me understand myself as a Mother so much more and it made me grateful for the opportunity to love my children the way Heather loves her girls and the way Heather is loved by her Mother.… (mer)