My Story
Part 3

The story opens on a razor’s edge. Some losses don’t happen once. They happen twice. And the second time, it can feel like it breaks something deeper.

In this chapter of my story, I share what happened after choosing open adoption. Courtrooms, custody battles, another goodbye, and the unraveling that followed. This is about grief in the body, postpartum fear, unstable ground, and the slow work of rebuilding when everything keeps collapsing through every pivot. 

Heather protects the truth, even under pressure to distort it. She names what many never say out loud: systems can grind down the honest, healing can lag behind logistics, and freedom often starts long before circumstances look free.

If you’ve ever wondered how to stand when the floor keeps shifting, this chapter offers hard-won insight, quiet courage, and the reminder Heather keeps returning to: freedom is the advantage you already own. 

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