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If 2026 is half as good as 2025…it should be a good year ❤️❤️
Graduated, got married, honeymooned in Barbados, moved to Indiana and got settled in this Midwest life, started my job as a veterinarian at Purdue, went to a couple amazing weddings as guests, made a few new friends, took a couple of weekend Indy and Chicago trips, and have been catching up on R&R lately in my limited free time.

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So proud of my beautiful-inside-and-out future DIL who just became a Dr of Veterinary Medicine! @annagrotjahn I know how hard you’ve worked to get here and I am so proud of you and excited for all the good things to come! I know animals everywhere are celebrating with us cause now there’s one more kind, brilliant, empathetic soul who’s out there ready to help them heal 💗

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A picture that speaks 1000 words about the hilarious, irreverent, beautiful soul that just said YES to my biggest Boo Boo @ethanchapman15 when he just popped the question!! 🤸
This is @annagrotjahn ‘s interpretation of the post-proposal engagement ring shot 🤣! Anna, we are so happy to officially welcome you into our family, even though you’ve been a central part of us for so long already!! We are so proud of and excited for you both. Watching the bravery, grace, kindness, tenacity and resilience with which you navigate life gives me every confidence that you and my boy will thrive together, and as individuals. I really think Sammy helped bring you into Ethan’s life just 2 weeks after he left. Ethan is a a gorgeous but very unique puzzle piece 🥰and it’s been truly and beautifully miraculous to me since I first met you what a perfect match you are for each other! There are so many wonderful things ahead for you and I am so honored to have you as a daughter, and to love you and cheer you both on through it all. A million congratulations!!🙌💍💗

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Happy, happy holidays to you all! ☃️ We will be closed today & tomorrow (12/24-25), but can’t wait to see you all Thursday!

PS- Enjoy some photos from our Ugly Sweater Potluck last week😉 If you see yourself, let us know so we can tag ya!

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Today is the birthday of my biggest Boo Boo. The one who made me a mama. He is my heart and my inspiration. He has been through more than anyone should in his short life and yet has persevered through and transcended what would have taken most down... His resilience and brilliance astounds and inspires me. He is deep and kind and so amazingly wise. See his new tattoo at the end. He says he loves juniper trees because they grow out of adversity. They are gnarled because of that adversity and pain and that’s what makes them so beautiful. They stand strong in the elements and adapt to the environment, offering shelter to others where there is none. He put the tree on his chest, growing out of the portacath scar where he received the life saving treatment for leukemia when just a toddler…the first of many traumas he’s weathered. He says that symbolizes what he inspires to be. I say he already embodies that every day. He’s stepping into his brilliance his first year after his Saturn return, and this mama couldn’t be more proud of him nor more excited for what’s to come. Happiest Birthday Etanito. I love you to the moon and back infinity times.

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Glad to have done Pinnacles right this time. Last time I was at Pinnacles, shit really hit the fan when I lost my car keys after a hike. That weekend camping trip cost me more than a weekend in time, and thousands of dollars alone. I was stupidly gungho.

On the brighter side, I was just a little less stupid this time around, and I come bearing good news about this trip. It was a first of many things that I got to experience. It was a trip with a completely new group of people, a camping trip that’s finally taken place right as my time in Northern California comes to an end, a climbing trip that exposed me to a new side of climbing, and an outdoor adventure that rekindled my passion for getting out in the wild.

Of those many things, I can’t go into detail without feeling like this isn’t the proper platform to do so. These days, if you’re really interested in what I have to say, just ask me. It would be a joy for me to tell you these things in person.

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This boy is my ride or die. It’s his 27th birthday today💗💗 He’s brilliant and hilarious, quirky and kind. He’s got more intuition and empathy in his pinky than most of us have in our whole body. This pic was taken about 3 years after my marriage to his father imploded. The smile on my face is genuine after years of healing from being gobsmacked, bamboozled, broken and betrayed. It’s cause of this Boo Boo that I got myself together, built a career and created a new life from scratch…for both of us. It was only then that I was really open to love again and this picture was taken 6 months before I met my husband and we became a family of 21 years and counting. I know I wasn’t a perfect mother and no doubt made mistakes. Been thinking about those a lot over the past few years …But I have zero doubt he knows and has always known how deeply and profoundly he is loved. Happy Birthday Etanito. I am so proud to be your mama and so grateful I got to be the one to bring the gift you are through to the world 💗💗

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Check out this sweet highlight reel from last months CRANKIN’ Bouldering Comp! We had an amazing time hosting everyone, and we’re already so excited for next year!
🎥: @thejonagaze
#rocknasium #crankin2022 #crankincomp

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Today’s my biggest Boo Boo’s birthday. He’s a gorgeous, hilarious, brilliant soul and I am so lucky I get to be his mama. Happiest Birthday to you Etanito! I’m so very proud of the amazing human and the wonderful man you are. I’m sorry I’m not at my best these days at milestones like this. Your brother should be here celebrating Thanksgiving and your Bday with us like always. I try to rise above it cause you deserve my best, especially on your special day. Thank you for getting it and getting me.❤️‍🩹💗💗❤️. Swipe to see him when he was a little Boo Boo dancing with his mama.

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This year….It’s hard to explain how deeply fundamental my tribe has been to my healing journey. My parents are gone. I have my husband and 2 (living) kids who are amazing and everything to me, but they’ve needed my support as much as I’ve needed theirs. I have no other extended family who can offer support or be there for me. And that’s totally ok. I made my peace with that long ago. But it’s also OK because I have the most wonderful, wise, beautiful soul family instead.

Over the past year they’ve picked me up off the ground (literally), held me, supported me, danced with me in the sand and snow, and among the trees. They’ve helped me lay my boy to rest, surrounding and buoying and baring witness. They’ve loved me through it and stayed by my side in my pain.

And along the way I learned, maybe for the first time, what it really means to soften enough to fully receive the love these amazing beings had to share. I am honestly still standing and continuing to heal thanks to them. They aren’t all pictured or tagged here but they know who they are. And yes my pups are included cause they’ve played a huge loving role in my healing too. More on that later. Most of all, please know how much YOU have helped me along the way. I can hardly explain how much it means to me to have this community that has cried, danced and laughed with e along the way. You’ve shared in my pains and my progress. You have been a daily part of my sense of connection, purpose, and my allies in healing every step of the way. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

And please remember. No matter who you are, your circumstances or what kind of family you were born to, family is what you make it to be. And it often isn’t those related to you genetically!

#friendswhoarefamily #soulfriends #grief #griefjourney #youvegotafriendinme #quantumlove #family #drlauraberman

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Wanna know what it’s like to be raised by a s@x therapist?? Impromptu 5 minute interview with my eldest boo boo about what it’s like at 25 looking back at life with a S@x therapist mama. I had to share. It’s hard to describe how adorable I find this and him to be…I learned some new things about his experience during this convo I never knew! And when he just very naturally in passing brings up and used the scientific term for oral??!! And all his thoughts on his education and what helped and what didn’t. And he’s the cutest thing EVER in my eyes. Even though he’s a man now at 25. I can’t describe how proud I am of who is is and how he rolls in life and love. And I’m unbelievably honored and happy he came home to visit and celebrate Mother’s Day with me.

He says if you have any questions feel free to ask below 😂🥰
#mothersandsons #sons #sextalk #birdsandbees #raisingkids #drlauraberman

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Lā honua 🌎🍃🌺

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