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Dear Me, Look How Far You’ve Come

A letter to the woman who didn’t know she could — and the proof that she can

Aug 12, 2025 • Anna | Tender & True

If Your Love Isn’t Inclusive, It Isn’t Love Yet

What Disability Has Taught Me About Access, Policy, and Belonging

Feb 14 • Anna | Tender & True

Hey Baby! Let’s Go to Cancún

Flying with a 13-Month-Old — What I Packed, What We Used, and What I’d Do Again

Feb 12 • Anna | Tender & True

Dear Me, You Are Allowed to Feel This

A letter to the mother stepping back into work — and the woman who never stopped being one

Feb 9 • Anna | Tender & True

Dear Parent, You Are Enough

For the days that feel heavy, unseen, and quietly brave

Feb 6 • Anna | Tender & True

Limb Difference Awareness

If Your Love Isn’t Inclusive, It Isn’t Love Yet

What Disability Has Taught Me About Access, Policy, and Belonging

Feb 14 • Anna | Tender & True

The Two-Year Waitlist That’s Failing Our Kids

What Alberta’s FSCD Program Should Be — and Why Families Can’t Afford to Wait

Jan 22 • Anna | Tender & True

When a Stranger Isn’t a Stranger at All

A quiet supper, an unexpected kinship, and the way limb-difference families find one another

Dec 20, 2025 • Anna | Tender & True

What I Wish I Could Tell the Girl in the Waiting Room

A letter to the final MFM visit, to the team who held me, and to the mothers still walking through those halls.

Dec 17, 2025 • Anna | Tender & True

International Day of Persons with Disabilities — A World Still Learning to Include

Seeing disability through the eyes of a parent — and through the truth of the facts

Dec 3, 2025 • Anna | Tender & True

More Than One Day of Thanks

On Remembrance Day, the CHAMP Program, and What We Owe

Nov 12, 2025 • Anna | Tender & True

Top posts

Dear Me, Look How Far You’ve Come

Aug 12, 2025 • Anna | Tender & True

Kids Will Be Kids — And I’m Done Apologizing

Jan 12 • Anna | Tender & True

Dear Dads, We See How Much You Carry

Nov 5, 2025 • Anna | Tender & True

So, the Anatomy Scan Brought Hard News — You’re Not Alone

Sep 16, 2025 • Anna | Tender & True

The Power of Hate, the Impact of Kindness

Sep 10, 2025 • Anna | Tender & True

Tender & True

Tender & True

Navigating motherhood, limb difference advocacy, and life’s tender truths. Sharing stories of resilience, love, and the beauty found in unexpected places.

Motherhood

Hey Baby! Let’s Go to Cancún

Flying with a 13-Month-Old — What I Packed, What We Used, and What I’d Do Again

Feb 12 • Anna | Tender & True

Dear Me, You Are Allowed to Feel This

A letter to the mother stepping back into work — and the woman who never stopped being one

Feb 9 • Anna | Tender & True

Dear Parent, You Are Enough

For the days that feel heavy, unseen, and quietly brave

Feb 6 • Anna | Tender & True

One Year In: What Motherhood Has Taught Me

12 truths from the first twelve months — raw, real, and still unfolding.

Feb 3 • Anna | Tender & True

The Wall I Built Around Motherhood

How saying “I never want kids” protected me — until it didn’t.

Jan 31 • Anna | Tender & True

I’m Convinced Threads Hates Moms

How one post at 7 a.m. made me drop my phone and remember exactly how disposable motherhood still is

Jan 17 • Anna | Tender & True

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Mental Health

It’s Okay Not to Be Okay — What’s Not Okay Is Staying Silent

A reflection on loss, limb difference, postpartum emotional crash, and learning to speak the truth.

Nov 24, 2025 • Anna | Tender & True

Dear Dads, We See How Much You Carry

Because the ones who carry the weight deserve to be held as well

Nov 5, 2025 • Anna | Tender & True

The Village We Build

To the Mama holding it all — a reminder that motherhood was never meant to be a solo act.

Aug 6, 2025 • Anna | Tender & True

The Quiet Strength of Fatherhood

A Letter to My Husband — And to All Dads Carrying Invisible Weight

Jun 15, 2025 • Anna | Tender & True

Mothers Day: A New Kind Of Gratitude

A first Mother’s Day marked by reflection, resilience, and deep gratitude.

May 11, 2025 • Anna | Tender & True

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