I started Hopeful Parents, a grassroots community where parents who understand what it's like having a child with special needs can connect.
Consider it a pit-stop in the marathon -- where we can go for attention to our wounds, where we can re-energize our way back on track, where we can look right and look left to see others running too, where we can hear the roar of the crowds cheering us on.
Hopeful Parents is a place of common ground.
We'll introduce you to our diverse pool of talented, thoughtful writers who will share their stories, their feelings, their ups and their downs.
You'll meet parents raising children with physical, psychological, emotional, neurological, sensory, behavioral, social, genetic, and developmental disabilities. Some parents are single, some are married. Some grieve the loss of their child; some grieve the loss of their spouse.
You'll also meet healers -- the "medics" who help us through our run. People we can turn to in our pain; people who can help provide some relief.