# @raisingculturesfamily on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CdN316WuyRb
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/38141933-raisingculturesfamily-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-05-06T12:33:59.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Keia Jones Baldwin (@raisingculturesfamily) — https://gondola.cc/raisingculturesfamily

## Caption

May is National Fostercare Month, Mental Health Awareness Month, and Lupus Awareness Month...as a therapist, foster mom/advocate, and bad-ass Lupus Warrior...May is a month where I am able to reflect. 

As a therapist, the one thing I can tell you all is to make your Mental Health a priority. You can't be there for anyone if you're not first showing up for yourself. Sometimes we have to be a little bit selfish in order to be selfless. 💚

As a foster parent, it is one of the hardest most rewarding jobs ever! With over 430,000 children in fostercare, becoming a foster parent was a way for me to be a part of a growing need in my community. ❤

As a Lupus Thriver, it's one of the toughest battles that I fight daily. Literally fighting with my body, an invisible illness where people tend to say, "You don't look sick"...it's tiring, it's painful, it's exhausting. At times I just want to give up and remember the life God gave me and I'm thankful in spite of the pain, that I'm able to live out the life of my dreams...with the best family, the best children, the best friends, and the best cyber family! 💜

Life is something else and each May, I get to reflect on the blessings and lessons I've learned. 🙏🏾 

#nationalfostercaremonth ❤ #lupusawarenessmonth 💜 #mentalhealthawareness 💚

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mentalhealthawareness, nationalfostercaremonth, lupusawarenessmonth

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