The Mighty

The Mighty is a digital health community that connects people facing health challenges and empowers them to share their stories of living with mental illness, chronic illness, disability and rare disease.

Motherly Stories

We need to respect our kids’ bodily autonomy at the doctor’s office too

No doubt, there is a very real dilemma between receiving necessary health care and respecting a child’s physical independence.

Motherly Stories

What my son taught me about my anxiety

I can say with full certainty that I would not be on this road to healing if he had not shown me that it is possible.

Motherly Stories

On wondering if I’m a good mother to all of my boys

"Finding the balance between being a good mother for my rare disease warrior and my other two boys can be very difficult and overwhelming."

Life

A letter to my pregnant self before I had a child with a disability

I am writing to you from the years ahead because I have a few things that I need to say to you—a few things you need to hear.

Motherly Stories

What a high-anxiety pregnancy taught me about supporting my son

"There is nothing you can do to stop it, but your mind over processes everything as if you were in slow motion."

Motherly Stories

To the woman deciding what to do after a traumatic pregnancy or birth

"I know how tremendously isolating this experience is and how many judgements, questions or opinions you have faced and will face."

Women's Health

My secret to parenting with borderline personality disorder

If you need support right now, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline…

Parenting

6 things I’ve learned about supporting my daughter with ADHD and SPD

"Labels should be used to help your child, not to define your child."

Mental Health

When depression makes you feel like an awful parent

"Depression looks different from person to person, just like parenting styles differ from parent to parent."

Women's Health

What’s it like to be pregnant and chronically ill?

"For me, it’s meant the risk of long-term immobility because my Symphis Pubis is at risk of rupture and I can no longer walk. It means another four and a half months minimum of immobility to go. If the SP ruptures it could mean further more extreme long term disability, loss of mobility, incontinence and need for surgical intervention."

Health & Wellness

To my fellow parents with disabilities: You are enough

There are valuable life lessons we get to impart to them by living our best disabled life, by taking all the bad and making the best of it—because that is all we can do. That is all any parent can do.

Women's Health

To the mama struggling to be a parent with depression and anxiety

I see you dropping your child off at school, still in your pajamas, a beanie hat on your head to cover up the fact you hadn’t brushed your hair yet this morning.