The Emerging Voice™

There are moments in life that fracture you. Moments so unexpected, so painful, that you find yourself simply going through the motions. Surviving each day while something deep inside you quietly goes silent. I know that place. I have lived there. At 19, I lay alone in a hospital bed. I had been violated. I was pregnant. With every contraction, I gripped the bed rail as silent tears ran down my cheeks. No one was there with me. My pregnancy was a secret so heavy it had begun