Mental Health, Emotional Wellbeing and Self-Care For Parents
Last week Sarah of Lotus Petal Family Support & I hosted our first awareness event for perinatal mental health. We teamed up with baby loss support organisation From My Womb To My Heart to create…
I had an emergency section when I had my son back in 2013. Although the “emergency” part was obviously very frightening and traumatising, the c-section itself was positive and the recovery was not even close…
I wrote this post back in 2015 about how our identities change when we become parents and how this can been an unsettling and sometimes shocking experience. I’ll never know how much of the emotional difficulty…
Five years ago I thought Postnatal Depression and miscarriage were awful things that happened to other people. I was healthy with no history of mental health problems and I conceived my son quickly and easily.…
Facing stress is part and parcel of life as a modern parent, no matter what your family situation and no matter how old your children are. Although ordinary, stress is very much something we need to…
Some of you may know that I’ve recently started a video series on Facebook Live where we’re discussing a different Anxiety management technique each week. These are held on Thursday evenings at 8.30pm BST over…
Seeking help for Postnatal Depression, or any mental health issue, can be a very scary and difficult process but it’s also one of the most important things you’ll do in your life. Sadly, accessing help…
One of the worst things you can hear when you’re experiencing Anxiety or Depression is that these conditions can be a lifelong battle. Even typing those words triggers a wave of fear and hopelessness –…
A few weeks ago my son came home from nursery with a graduation certificate. Pre-parenthood we may have scoffed at such a silly thing but the mother in me completely welled up. Confused, he asked me…
Dear BBC Panorama Just over four years ago I gave birth to my son, we were both completely healthy. Eight weeks later I was suicidal. What began as a hormone crash had escalated to severe…