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Motherhood, Mortality, and the Myth of Control

Feb 5, 2024 | latterdaysaintmag.com | Cassandra Hedelius

The following first appeared on Public Square Magazine. Sorry to be dramatic, but a few weeks ago, I had a heart attack. Yes, seriously. I never dreamed middle-aged moms’ coronary arteries suddenly shredding themselves was a thing, but apparently, it’s a thing. One moment, I was brushing my hair; the next moment, I collapsed, I couldn’t breathe or see, and my right arm went totally limp. My four little children were still in their beds, waiting for Mommy to come get them up.
A Mother’s Dear-death Awakening

Feb 2, 2024 | publicsquaremag.org | Cassandra Hedelius

Sorry to be dramatic, but a few weeks ago, I had a heart attack. Yes, seriously. I never dreamed middle-aged moms’ coronary arteries suddenly shredding themselves was a thing, but apparently, it’s a thing. One moment, I was brushing my hair; the next moment, I collapsed, I couldn’t breathe or see, and my right arm went totally limp. My four little children were still in their beds, waiting for Mommy to come get them up. The fear they would find me dead is the most terrible thing I’ve ever felt.
A Mother’s Dear-death Awakening

Feb 2, 2024 | l8r.it | Cassandra Hedelius

Sorry to be dramatic, but a few weeks ago, I had a heart attack. Yes, seriously. I never dreamed middle-aged moms’ coronary arteries suddenly shredding themselves was a thing, but apparently, it’s a thing. One moment, I was brushing my hair; the next moment, I collapsed, I couldn’t breathe or see, and my right arm went totally limp. My four little children were still in their beds, waiting for Mommy to come get them up. The fear they would find me dead is the most terrible thing I’ve ever felt.
Jeff Bennion, Author at Public Square Magazine

Oct 6, 2023 | publicsquaremag.org | Jeff Bennion |Dan Ellsworth |Cassandra Hedelius |Meagan Kohler

Natasha Helfer is not in trouble with the Church because the Church is trying to tell her how to do her job. She’s in trouble with the Church because she’s trying to tell it how to do its job.
Cassandra Hedelius, Author at Public Square Magazine

Aug 18, 2023 | publicsquaremag.org | Cassandra Hedelius |Gregory Smith

Coverage of Utah HB 11, regarding transgender students in high school sports, has generated more outrage than illumination. We wanted to find out if there was more to the story.
Understanding For the Strength of Youth Standards

Aug 18, 2023 | publicsquaremag.org | Cassandra Hedelius

The recommends everyone brush his or her teeth for two minutes twice per day. Their recommendation is based on careful study and data-gathering and is motivated by a desire to help people have good dental health and avoid painful problems. It is, quite simply, True-with-a-capital-T that brushing twice per day is the best choice for everyone. But when you brushed your teeth this morning, I bet you didn’t even think about the ADA recommendation.
We need a better word to describe apologists

Jul 31, 2023 | deseret.com | Cassandra Hedelius

The life story of Socrates does not have a happy ending - and yet, it does. In 399 B.C., Socrates was tried for impiety, sentenced to death and executed by poisoning. That's terribly sad, of course, but if that's all there was to the story, humanity would have forgotten about it long ago.
Brave new words are are threatening the ways we describe families

Mar 11, 2023 | deseret.com | Cassandra Hedelius

The classic novel "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley depicts a dystopian society with a tyrannical government that controls people through biological, psychological and social conditioning. Thankfully, most of the government's methods are impossible, but one keeps coming to mind because it's disturbingly familiar. In novel, published in 1932, they loathed and shunned words like mother, father and family.