Coming Clean
The strange thing about the internet, and particularly blogging, is that it’s often easier to disclose your deepest, darkest feelings to a world wide web full of strangers than to the people you’ve known all…
Tag: anxiety
Book Review: A Monster Ate My Mum by Jen Faulkner
I’m reviewing another picture book for this week’s Butterfly Book Club but this one is a little different – and incredibly special. On the surface, A Monster Ate My Mum seems like a fairly ordinary story about a…
Parenting with Anxiety – Guest Post by Josephine Ruggieri
I couldn’t be happier with the response to this series so far, thanks so much for everyone who read and commented on Min’s post last week. We have lots of really wonderful writers lined up…
Meeting the #pndfamily
Regular readers will know that perinatal mental health features regularly in this blog, following my own experience of PND and anxiety in 2013 (and brief anxiety relapse last year). You have also probably heard me…
How Do You Self-Care?
I’ve touched on self-care several times previously but today I thought I’d share the (sometimes) random activities I partake in as a means of looking after my emotional wellbeing. Self-care is important for everyone but…
10 Things I’ve Gained from Postnatal Depression
PND is such a frightening and terrible experience, one than I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy and one that I desperately don’t want to repeat. To indicate that there are positives to such an…
Who Am I Now? Identity After Motherhood
This post was originally written as a guest post for Mum Plus Business, a website dedicated to helping mums set up their own business or move into flexible working. You expect a great deal to change when…
100 Weeks of #pndhour
A short but very sweet post from me today. I just wanted to take a moment to talk about Rosey of PNDandme and her amazing work, especially in regards to #pndhour. I wish so deeply…
Five Tips For Managing Anxiety & Depression During The Holiday Period
One of the worst things about Postnatal Depression is that it’s a period of depression during a time when society expects you to be at your happiest. Similarly, dealing with any depression or mental health…
Book Review: Mothering Through The Darkness
*Trigger warning: this review contains reference to suicidal thoughts.* What strikes me most when reading the heart-wrenching anthology Mothering Through the Darkness is how indiscriminate Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders really are. They can, and…