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Claudine Plesa is an ordained minister, life and relationship coach, and the creator of Positive Divorce Blueprint. Twice divorced and thrice married, she writes about healing, identity, and emotional resilience with honesty, grit, and a dash of irreverent humour. She lives on a hobby farm in Ontario, Canada, surrounded by grandkids, animals, and an ever-growing sense of self. Learn more at positivedivorceblueprint.com

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My Daughter Needed Me to Choose Better, So I Did

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“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.” ~W.E.B. Du Bois

I was standing at the service bar, waiting for my drink order to be ready. The scent of steak fat clinging to my apron and infusing itself into my bra, while twenty-something servers around me whined about working on Mother’s Day… yet I was the only mother working that night.

I’d barely slept because I’d closed the restaurant the night before.

My nine-year-old daughter had just told me she wished she were dead.

And here I was, pretending to care about side plates and drink refills …