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wellllllll. it’s happening 😭🎉 what on earth.⁣ ⁣ we’ve got a tiny human coming our way this october and we can’t wait to meet her ♥️⁣ ⁣ i honestly can't believe we get to do this. it has been such a long and difficult road up to this point, but somehow, miraculously, here we are. ⁣ ⁣ thank you times infinity to everyone who has reached out with love and support throughout these years. you lifted us through some dark dark days and we would not have made it here without you.⁣ ⁣ sending enormous amounts of love and strength to those of you still in the waiting. this path is so tremendously hard. hoping with all my heart your time is soon.

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she’s here 😭♥️⁣ welcome to the world, aya. ✨⁣ ⁣ more from me once my feet have found their way back to planet earth, but in the meantime, wanted to let you know we are all safe and healthy and well. the three of us have been blissfully tumbling around in this wild new reality and soaking up every second. i still can’t believe we get to do this and am grateful beyond words 😭 thank you all so much for the love and check-ins and support these past weeks. i think i might be the luckiest person alive. 😭♥️♥️♥️

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infertility is rough. like really rough. i first shared about my experience a year ago. since then it has become an even bigger part of my day-to-day existence, but at some point i stopped knowing how to talk about it and now it feels like i've been going through the world mute.⁣ ⁣ i have wanted to be a mom since i was a kid. family is sacred to me. even more so than my dream to pursue music, my dream to have a family has always been the most near to my heart. i know there are many means to have a family, and of course i believe they are all valid and beautiful. but i also know i can't force myself to be further along on this journey emotionally than where i'm at. ⁣ ⁣ since january, we have been deep in the world of IVF. this chapter of infertility has been such a longer, more intense, anxiety-ridden, and heartbreaking process than i'd ever imagined. it is test after test after test. it's blood draws every other day, and being poked and prodded in all sorts of violating ways. it's giving yourself 3-4 shots every day. it's hormones that throw you straight into the deepest depression. it is waiting upon waiting, and all the while, living with the fear that after all of this, you still may never get pregnant. it's doing a full month-long round of meds and procedures to get zero viable embryos. it's watching as your friends become pregnant one by one and slowly the beautiful community you once had is now almost too painful to think about.⁣ ⁣ it's also getting pregnant after nearly 4 years of trying, only to miscarry two days later. which brings us to the present.⁣ ⁣ i am crushed and empty and heartbroken. but i also know i will be okay. i am breathing. i have a beautiful life. i have beautiful people in my life. IVF exists and there are doctors dedicating their lives to this, and i am privileged to even have the means to pursue it. on some level it feels wrong to talk about something like this when the world is on fire in the way it is. horrible injustices abound that are so much bigger than my dream to become a mother.⁣ ⁣ and yet, here i am sharing. to feel less alone. for openness and connection and hopefully some healing, too. 🤍

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taking these final (bonus) days of being pregnant to reflect on the last 9 months and what a journey they’ve been. ⁣ ⁣ my first trimester was the darkest and hardest time of my life. moving through perinatal depression and constant nausea, still hopped up on IVF meds, and trying to navigate the mental shift from being someone struggling through infertility to someone moving through a pregnancy. it was pure numbness and fear. ⁣ ⁣ the second trimester was beautiful. i remember those first moments feeling the clouds begin to part and the sun starting to shine through again. i would be hit by intense moments of realization of what was happening where i would be so filled up with joy and gratitude that it would overflow and tip me back into pools of grief from our years of yearning and loss. lots of healing tears and disbelief. experiencing the reality of it all set in was one of the happiest times in my life. ⁣ ⁣ the third trimester has largely been a string of walking past mirrors and exclaiming “WHAT!?” out loud as i saw my new reflection looking back at me. 😂 utter disbelief of what my body (and hers!) are capable of, and the slow dawning on me that somehow—and SOON!—this little person has got to find a way OUT of my body, and an entirely new chapter of life will begin. it’s been a time of dumbfoundedness, trying to wrap my head around it all. excitement and confusion and fear and beauty. ⁣ ⁣ jesse and i have been soaking up our final days as just the two of us, while super aware we have had more of these days than most people ever will before becoming parents—nearly 20 years of just us two! they’ve been the most incredible adventure ever, and we’re so ready and excited for this next adventure to begin.

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wellll surprise!! my new album “it’s hard to be human” is out today 😱😭♥️🎉🙌🏻 this collection of songs chronicles my last three years of life—including moments of immense grief and hopelessness as well as moments of incredible clarity and gratitude. these songs found me as i navigated social anxiety and tended to my mental health, tried to come to terms with a world seemingly on fire, and journeyed through infertility, IVF, and a miscarriage. within all of that, however, there were tremendous amounts of beauty and love, too. ⁣ ⁣ these three years have been so chock-full of humanness. they broke me open and filled me up over and over again, taught me incredible lessons (and then taught them to me again every time i inevitably forgot what i had learned), and gave me such an incredibly deep love and compassion for all humans going through their stuff. my “stuff” may have looked a certain way these past years, but as humans, the raw experiences we go through—love, loss, joy, despair, existential overwhelm, etc, really bind and bond us in our humanness. this record is a meditation on lost dreams, hope, surrender, and the ultimate realization that we have everything we need.⁣ ⁣ these last 9 months especially have been so rich with life—double pregnant with a miracle human baby and a labor-of-love album baby, and it’s been so meaningful to build them in tandem and have them both entering the world around the same time. after everything we’ve been through, it’s impossible to describe how special it feels that this album cover features TWO humans on their own journeys. our daughter could be arriving any day now (which is just completely surreal and mind-blowing and nuts!), so i’m particularly thrilled i get to share THIS baby with you now before life gets a little crazy for a while. i can’t believe i am here after all these years. thank you all for your love and support and encouragement, and until i’m back with more music, i hope you and this little family of songs can spend some quality time together :) “it’s hard to be human” is out now in all the places ♥️

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