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"Whether you are a parent of a kiddo with cancer, a heart condition, diabetes, cerebral palsy or a thousand other things that have you pacing hospital floors with your child, this book is for you. If you are someone on the sidelines watching helplessly, this book is for you. If you are a medical provider seeking understanding, this is for you. Between the pages of Dear Mama in the Darkness, Hilary Camille Thompson, CLC, is hoping parents find encouragement, hope, inspiration, compassion, and perhaps a perspective that will help them to see the challenge of raising a medically complex child in a different light. Hilary's unique, refreshingly simple, practical, and inspiring approach to their family's situation has blessed her with the ability to serve adults and teens' across the country in her online mental health coaching practice. Mama to two great kids, (one on her second heart), she remains a tireless advocate for medical families in her ""spare time,"" and is now an international best-selling author. The letters in Dear Mama in the Darkness were written over a period of eleven years, as a testament to the tools she found that enabled her to find joy, even when things were hard; to become better, not bitter. Often parents with sick kids feel alone, exhausted, emotionally drained, existing in a state of survival. Often friends, relatives, neighbors, and social workers are at a loss with ways to support, let alone understand. There are many books that offer ways to help our children in these situations, but very few that offer encouragement and mental health support for the parents. That's where Hilary comes in. Poetic at times, tear-jerking, funny, emotionally authentic and sometimes very raw, these letters are meant to empower, inspire, and bless anyone who is fortunate enough to be involved in the care of a sick child. Hilary's hope is that, whether you are in a hospital, or your living room, or you're falling into bed after another exhausting day parenting a sick kiddo, that these pages will bless your ""brokenness"" with a bit of gold, much like the Japanese art of kintsugi. These children need (more than almost anything) a parent who is emotionally well-supported and whole to care for them. No one has to be in the Darkness alone. Hilary is here to sit with you in it...and she's brought a lantern (and a latte)."

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"""Dear Mama is so inspiring, so heartbreaking, so touching, so real and so needed! I sobbed with heartbreak, hope and joy. Hilary shares her soul with compassion, empathy and humor to comfort parents in pain - to let them know that they - that we - are not alone."" -Brenda Chapman - Mama, Writer/Director and Academy Award Winner of Disney/Pixar's Brave ""A powerful, inspiring, perspective for dads, moms, and really anyone on the sidelines."" -Luther Elliss, Dad to a Medically-Fragile Kiddo, Coach, Former All-American NFL Player ""This is the perfect gift (empowering, validating, uplifting) for any parent struggling with raising a complex child. It blessed me beyond measure."" - Melissa McQueen, President of Transplant Families, Heart Transplant Mama ""Few resources capture the feelings that parents of children with medical complexity experience. Hilary does so, with a frankness filled with wisdom, humor, humility, and hope."" -Dianna Yip, DO, Pediatric Palliative Care, Dell Children's Medical Center, Mind Body Medicine, Moon Rabbit Medicine ""Beautiful. Hilary has a way of writing what is in my heart."" -Amber Blomquist, Heart Transplant Mama, COO StageDotO Ventures ""This book should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the journey of a family going through childhood illness."" -Natasha Woodside, Volunteer Wish-Granter, National Wish-Granting Non-Profit ""This is a gift (empowering, validating, uplifting) for any parent struggling with raising a medically complex child."" -Melissa McQueen, President of Transplant Families, a National Non-profit Organization ""As a mother of a medically-fragile child who is now in the middle of a battle with leukemia, the words on these pages felt like my best friend: weeping with me, cheering me on, and most of all, reminding me I am not alone in this journey."" -Christina Lakey, Mama, Founder/Director, Brave Like You Brave Like Me"

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