Some love stories don’t begin with certainty.They begin with waiting. With fear. With the quiet understanding that everything could still fall apart.

Tonight we went live with writer Lynn J. Broderick to talk about A Story that Could Have Gone Either Way — a deeply honest adoption story that explores infertility, choice, grief, hope, and the love that almost wasn’t hers to keep.

Lynn shares what it means to hold joy and loss at the same time, to love a child before knowing if that love will be returned, and to live with gratitude for a story that could have ended differently.

This is a conversation about motherhood in its many forms, the emotional weight of adoption, and the moments that change everything — even when nothing feels certain.

* Loving a child before knowing if that love will be yours to keep

* The emotional complexity of adoption — beyond the paperwork and happy endings

* Infertility, waiting, and the moments where hope and fear coexist

* Honoring birth parents, choice, and the grief that lives alongside gratitude

* How one story unfolds across a lifetime, long after the decision is madeThank you John Rinaldo , Chris B. Writes, KaZ In The World, Marlana and many others for tuning into my live video with Lynn J. Broderick!

Join me for my next lives on the Motherhood Series 2/11 Erin Gregory 2/18 Ellen Scherr

We grow up thinking motherhood has a clear outline. The one with neat edges, one version, one path.Then real life steps in and redraws everything.Not with illness or trauma or choice alone, but with the things we witnessed, the moments that marked us, and the parts of life we had to make sense of on our own.It’s not the picture-perfect version we grew up imagining.

It’s the one we lived our way into.

Motherhood doesn’t have one story!This 4 part series tells the ones we don’t hear enough of.

Motherhood isn’t one path, it’s a spectrum of experiences that rarely look like the stories we were handed growing up.Some women become mothers through birth.Some through adoption.Some through healing the wounds they once carried into their parenting.And some find motherhood in the unexpected ways we show up in the lives of others.

This four-part series brings together four women whose journeys could not be more different, yet each one reveals a truth so many of us feel but rarely say out loud:

There is no single way to be a mother. And there is no wrong way to be one, either.

If you’ve ever questioned your own path…If you’ve ever felt unseen or “outside the lines”…If you’ve ever wondered whether your version of motherhood counts, this is the series you tune into.

These are the stories that stop you, hold you, and remind you that motherhood is not a mold; it’s a becoming.

Meet the Four Stories Coming Your Way

1. Why I Thought Motherhood Wasn’t Meant for Me

Traci Edwards, Let’s Get Unstuck - the fear of losing myself, my marriage, my body, my freedom… and the version of motherhood that found me anyway.

2. A Love Story That Could Have Gone Either Way

Lynn J. Broderick - A fragile road to adoption. The waiting, the fear, and the baby she loved long before she knew he’d ever be hers. Going Live 2/4

3. How I Lost Myself in Motherhood and Found Myself Again

Erin Gregory, Erin Gregory Creative - Postpartum depression. A sick baby. A marriage stretched thin. A career sacrificed. Erin’s story is what happens when motherhood asks more than anyone can prepare for. Going Live 2/11

4. I Almost Lost My Daughter Before I Realized I Was the Problem

Ellen Scherr, Life Branches

Why We’re Doing This — Together

Motherhood is often sold as one tidy story.

Before You Go…

If motherhood, in ANY form, has ever felt complicated for you, you’re in the right place.

Join us Live Schedule: 5:30pm pst

* 1/28 - Traci Edwards, Let’s Get Unstuck

* 2/4 - Lynn J Broderick, Lynn J Broderick

* 2/11 - Erin Gregory, Erin Gregory Creative

* 2/18 - Ellen Scherr, Life Branches

Last Night on Let’s Get Unstuck Live, I sat down with The Therapist Who Came Undone for a conversation about grief, friendship, and what it means to show up when nothing can be fixed.

She read her story F**k It Bucket It — a reflection on profound loss, a milestone birthday reshaped by grief, and the friends who arrived not with answers, but with presence.

This is a story about:

* grief that changes the shape of everything

* friendship in the aftermath of loss

* showing up without trying to fix

* love without instructions

* letting meaning unfold instead of forcing it

What makes this story land isn’t just what happened — it’s the honesty in how it’s held. There’s no rush to resolve the pain. No tidy bow. Just truth, connection, and the quiet power of staying.

And the bucket?It’s unexpected. Irreverent. Exactly right.

This conversation is for:

* anyone grieving a loss that still feels close

* anyone who’s been held up by friends when they couldn’t stand

* anyone learning that presence matters more than answers

* anyone navigating the tension between meaning and mess

Be sure to support and subscriber to The Therapist Who Came Undone & Let’s Get Unstuck Live,

Last night on Let’s Get Unstuck Live, I sat down with Anna of Tender & True for a conversation about motherhood when life doesn’t follow the plan you imagined.

Anna reads her story titled So, the Anatomy Brought Hard News- You’re Not Alone. It’s about learning her son would be born with a limb difference — a moment that stops time, rearranges expectations, and forces you to confront fear, grief, faith, and love all at once.

This is a story about:

* motherhood you don’t prepare for

* receiving life-altering news during pregnancy

* raising a child with a limb difference

* holding fear and faith in the same breath

* choosing love again and again, even when the future feels uncertain

What makes Anna’s story so powerful isn’t just what happened — it’s how she met it. With honesty. With vulnerability. With a heart wide enough to hold both grief and deep devotion to her son.

And the letter she writes at the end? OMG, be prepared to cry your eyes out!It will undo you.

It’s raw. It’s faithful. It’s filled with the fierce, unconditional love only a mother can give — the kind that doesn’t need fixing or answers, just presence.

This conversation is for:

* mothers navigating unexpected diagnoses

* parents raising children with disabilities or limb differences

* anyone who’s had to let go of the life they imagined and learn how to love the one they were given

* anyone who needs to be reminded that love doesn’t disappear when plans change — it deepens

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Read Jake’s Story - Authenticity & Anthony Bourdain

I held off on having Jake Summers on Let’s Get Unstuck Live until 2026 for a reason.His story felt like the right way to kick off this year — with honesty, risk, and the kind of truth that rattles something awake in you.

Jake walked away from a six-figure finance career — the kind of life that checks all the boxes society tells you to want — and followed a pull that didn’t make sense on paper.

That pull took him across the world to rural Cambodia.Sleeping in a shipping container.Showering with river water.Building a mango farm from the ground up.

What struck me most while reading his story is why Anthony Bourdain mattered so much to him.

They both lived corporate lives that looked impressive from the outside.And they both chose curiosity over comfort.Travel over performance.Authenticity over approval.Jake doesn’t glamorize that choice — he tells the truth about the fear, the uncertainty, the relapses, the rebuilding, and the constant work of choosing a life that actually feels like his.

We lost Anthony Bourdain far too soon.But reading Jake’s story reminded me what it looks like to take chances while you’re still here — to give up what people think matters most: money, status, stability and build something meaningful anyway.

This isn’t a story about quitting your job or moving to Cambodia.It’s a story about asking yourself one uncomfortable question:

Am I building a life that looks good… or a life that feels true?

🎙️ Let’s Get Unstuck Live with Jake SummersWe’ll have a conversation about authenticity, reinvention, choosing truth over applause and what happens when you stop performing and start living.

If you’ve ever felt the pull to burn down a version of yourself that no longer fits — this conversation is for you.

Read Jake’s Story - Authenticity & Anthony Bourdain

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Hannah’s story begins with a diagnosis — Stage III endometrial cancer at thirty-two — and a sentence no one is ever prepared to hear. But what unfolds isn’t just about illness or prognosis.

It’s about what surfaces when time suddenly feels fragile. It’s about grief that never fully had space to breathe — especially the loss of her mother when Hannah was just nine years old —this followed her into adulthood, influencing how she learned to worry, to brace, and to survive.

In her writing, Hannah doesn’t rush toward answers or silver linings.

She allows us to sit inside the fear, the memories, the questions, and the weight of realizing how much has been carried for so long.

This story is about reckoning. About how past loss collides with present reality. About what happens when the body forces us to listen to what the heart has been holding.

Hannah writes her story with honesty that doesn’t ask for sympathy — it simply asks the reader to truly see her experience.

Full Episode of today’s Live with

Gabrielle Sojourner

This brave soul jumped on camera for the 1st time to tell her story

One that stems from pain - living in a relationship of

Intimate Partner Rape & Psychological Abuse

Here she tells us how she decided one day that enough is enough

Her strength to walk away.

The deep depression that set in with an attempted suicide.

Being misunderstood by her Dr. & speaking to authorities who never listened.

To hours of therapy and finally reclaiming her life no longer as a victim, but a true “thriver”

Please share your support and listen and comment with kindness.

Thank you

I’m joined by someone who blends science, emotional truth, and lived experience in a way that women in midlife desperately need to hear.

Her story tonight has gone viral and I can’t wait to share it with you.

Ellen Scherr is a licensed clinical therapist, a certified life and business coach, and a woman who has personally walked through the emotional turbulence of midlife. She has tackled divorce, career reinvention, identity shifts, menopause, and the mental load that women are expected to carry without collapsing.

Her piece, ‘Aging Out of F***s: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore,’ has resonated deeply with thousands of women because it names something we all feel but rarely understand — that sudden moment when the performance stops, the filter breaks, and the truth comes out sharper and faster than you expected.

What I love about Ellen is that she doesn’t just explain this scientifically — she normalizes it emotionally. She reminds women they’re not broken; they’re becoming clearer, braver, and more aligned with themselves than ever before.

I’m joined by a writer whose work doesn’t just tell a story — it makes you feel your own.

John also known as The Positive Pen on SS is an author, artist, and storyteller with a gift for noticing the quiet things most people rush past — the small gestures, the in-between moments, the conversations that happen without words.

His chapter, ‘Postcards and Miles,’ is one of those rare pieces that reads like a film and feels like a confession — a story about fatherhood, heartbreak, mentorship, and the small rituals that become anchors when the rest of life is unsteady.

It’s tender, cinematic, and deeply human.

And what makes it even more powerful is knowing that this isn’t imagined — it’s lived.

I’m joined by a man whose strength lives somewhere between exhaustion and grace.

Chris B. is an award-winning poet, caregiver, dad and husband— and if you ask his son Brayden, he’s also a real-life superhero.

Brayden, lovingly called Bray Bray, was born with a rare genetic disorder that causes seizures and developmental delays. But his light — and his laughter — became the center of Chris’s poetry, his purpose, and his faith. But let’s pause, that smile from Bray Bray… You think you are having a bad day.. Look at Bray Bray’s smile as that kid can turn a frown upside down in a heart beat!

In his poem ‘The Believer,’ Chris takes us into the raw, unfiltered world of caregiving — where anger and gratitude often share the same heartbeat. He writes about the paperwork, the walls, the sleepless nights, and the love that still manages to shine through it all.

Tonight, we’ll talk about what it means to be the strong one, what it means to break the cycle of frustration, and how a father and son remind each other what belief truly looks like.