I created 2KDOS, named after my two children, my two kiddos, because I believe that what we don't feel, we pass on. And I didn't want to pass on what I was carrying.

This isn’t a project built from theory. It’s built from life. From moments that brought me to my knees, and from what I found when I finally stopped running from them.

After my second child was born, I went through postpartum depression and hid it from everyone. I felt so much, and none of it could get out. I held my family together while quietly falling apart inside.

One day I was on the floor, crying, holding my newborn. My two year old daughter was standing there, watching me. She didn’t understand what was happening, and I didn’t have the words to tell her. I didn’t even have the words for myself.

So I started putting little notes about emotions around our home. Simple papers with names for what we feel. I wanted to teach her, and I ended up learning. Slowly, those papers became something you could hold: five cushions, one for each emotion, for our family.

Then my son Isaac was diagnosed with cancer at two. Everything shook, even my faith and my marriage. I sat beside his hospital bed with a fear no words can hold. Today he’s in remission. I call it being re-loved, because life gave him back to us ♥. And I carry everything those years taught me, and still teach me.

One night, sitting next to my husband in silence, I picked up the sadness cushion, and the tears finally came. He took the anger cushion. Nobody had to explain anything. We just held what we’d kept inside for so long. That’s when I knew these cushions weren’t only for kids.

With love,