About Kelsey Haywood Lucas
This is Two Truths — a newsletter honoring and exploring the duality of motherhood by journalists Cassie Shortsleeve and Kelsey Lucas.
What happens when two strangers (who are both parenting journalists) unknowingly have babies around the same time (and then have more babies around the same time), connect online, and find themselves both in the thick of early motherhood together and deeply entrenched in daily conversations about the million different ways they feel about everything? They start a newsletter. This is ours.
Two Truths explores the fascinating, nuanced, wildly misunderstood, yet universal concept of duality in motherhood.
First, a little lesson: Rooted in leading therapeutical mental health treatments and well-understood by scholars who study motherhood is one simple and healing idea: two things can be true.