Beth Zustiak
Beth is the Founder of and Director of Marketing for Twin Cities Mom Collective, the Co-Founder of Duluth Moms Blog and also works for for City Mom Collective. She believes strongly in faith and friendships and the influence good people can have on your life. Having been through it, she has a heart for women who have experienced the loss of a baby and find solace in bringing awareness to loss and stillbirth issues. She is wife to Dan and Mommy to two gorgeous girls – Sophia {2009} and Evelyn {2011}, baby boy Wesley {2014 and four sweet babies in heaven. You can find Beth on Instagram. She loves leadership development, social media, hosting in her home and time with loved ones.
Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness | Getting Up Again
I don’t have a first-grader.
That keeps running through my head, and I don’t know where it came from.
Back to school season has never been a reminder of babies lost, but this year, it was.
Sometimes,...
Enya Is My Marriage Therapist
For a couple of years, I was in a group of local women entrepreneurs that met monthly. We'd eat dinner and talk through some discussion questions. Slowly the group evolved more into friendship gatherings...
How Not to Lose Your Friends in Motherhood
If you're like me, motherhood has been a joy, a blessing, it has brought so much to your life...but.
But it has also taken a few things too. Namely, friendships. I've watched some of my...
Be Still: Why We Need to Trudge Through Grief
Be still.
It's a great tattoo, I've seen a lot of people get this on their wrist as a reminder. It turns out, I like to talk about tattoos. But really - it's a great...
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance: Let Us Speak For Them
Her name was Hattie.
The first baby I lost: her name was Hattie. She changed me from who I was into who I am, top to bottom and inside out. She's a constant on my...
The Morning I Found Instant Kinship with Orca Whale J35
I'm not sure if you've seen the article about J35 - a sweet mama whale whose baby passed away shortly after birth. It will grip your own mama heart. It will have you suddenly...
How Life Got Better With Less Screen Time
Last summer, out of nowhere, I decided no screen time. No screen time from Mommy at least, but our summer nanny has a license to use discretion and Daddy gets to make his own...
Real Moms, Real Stories: Our Top Posts of 2017
2017 was a stretch year for us, not always the easiest in many ways. Wait...it's a celebratory post! It's your birthday week...shouldn't you be shining a light on all that went well this year?...
The Long and the Short of it: Baby Loss
What does it mean to lose your baby? What happens to me when I lose my baby? So many things. It means my world changes, it means my heart is broken and missing and gone.
Two...
Tomorrow, We Each Face Kindergarten
You were only six weeks old the first time my heart was shattered. When all you really knew was mommy, I'd spend hours holding you in the middle of the night, constantly rocking you...
Back to School Printables…for MOMS
Hey Mama...how are you doing? Are you jumping for joy and counting the minutes until that first school bell rings, or drowning in all the tissues you've used up as that moment approaches? No...
Just a Decade Left With You…
The night before the last day of second grade, she was in my bed, laying there, not wanting to sleep in her own bed. Why? There are usually about a million reasons they can...
Amy’s Cupcake Shoppe Macaron Classes!
First thing's first: If you haven't had a macaron from Amy's Cupcake Shoppe yet, you need to get in the car right now and head over to their shop in Hopkins! If you have had...