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Andrea Coppola’s Intentional Journey to Motherhood Chiara is three. Like any 3-year-old, she is constantly on the go. One minute she’s spinning circles through the living room in a Disney princess dress, the next she’s singing and dancing to a song she made up on the spot. Watching her, you’d never know what it took to get here. For Andrea Coppola, all of this – the laughter, the bedtime stories, the very existence of her daughter – used to be something she wasn’t sure she’d

One of the greatest privileges of building For Her, By Us has been sitting down with single mothers and the organizations supporting them. Every woman has a different story - widowhood, divorce, choice, circumstances never chosen. But through all my interviews, I keep hearing the same answer to one question: "Where do you wish you had more support?" Almost always, it comes back to affordable childcare and workplaces that accommodate family life. That answer stayed with me, be

We love to call single mothers resilient. They're the ones who somehow show up to work after a night spent pacing the floor with a sick kid. They stretch a paycheck four ways, sit through school meetings alone, comfort a grieving child while grieving something themselves, and just keep going. Somewhere along the way, "resilient" stopped being a compliment and started being an expectation - like they've earned the label, but there's no room left to admit they're struggling. Th