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Category: Depression

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…

Posted in Anxiety, Depression, Motherhood, Recovery 32 Comments December 21, 2015 by

Knowledge is power: The Importance of Research in Treating Postnatal Illness

This post was originally written as a guest blog for MQ.  MQ is a new charity, set up to transform mental health through research, to ease suffering and improve the lives of everyone affected by mental…

Posted in Anxiety, Blogging, Depression, Recovery 14 Comments October 14, 2015 by

Sharing PND & Anxiety With My GP

This post is not about bashing GPs. There are some truly wonderful medical professionals in this country, and abroad, who do very important work, especially in the mental health field. I have met several of…

Posted in Anxiety, Depression, Recovery 15 Comments September 29, 2015May 11, 2018 by Laura

The battle for acceptance

It’s truly ironic that I blog about depression and advocate on social media to break mental health stigma and yet when it comes to accepting my own battle with PND and anxiety I still have…

Posted in Anxiety, Depression, Recovery 3 Comments July 11, 2015 by

The Power of Peer Support

They say it takes a village to raise a child but, in 2015, where the hell is our village? Many cultures around the world celebrate the birth of a new member of their community by…

Posted in Depression, Motherhood 29 Comments April 28, 2015 by

Hope is a good thing

“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” The Shawshank Redemption I want to talk about the power of hope. Many symptom lists for perinatal mood and…

Posted in Depression, Recovery 5 Comments April 20, 2015 by

Antidepressants For PND & Anxiety

The truth is I didn’t want to take antidepressants. No. Way. I’ll confess, before this experience I think I may have even been part of the mental health stigma. It’s really hard to admit that but…

Posted in Depression, Recovery 17 Comments April 13, 2015May 11, 2018 by Laura

My Postnatal Depression Recovery Story

“Postnatal Depression recovery stories.” These were the only words I typed into my browser for weeks. My anxiety was incredibly high, I genuinely thought I was losing my mind. Instead of cuddling my son or…

Posted in Anxiety, Depression, Recovery 51 Comments April 11, 2015May 11, 2018 by Laura

Great Expectations

Nothing demonstrates my skewed expectations of early motherhood better than a message I sent to my best friend actually asking her if she enjoyed changing nappies. This is one of the few texts I’d been…

Posted in Anxiety, Depression, Motherhood 11 Comments April 9, 2015 by

The Birth of the Butterfly

“Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and…he was a beautiful butterfly!” Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar One of the greatest transformations in nature is that of the caterpillar…

Posted in About me, Depression 2 Comments April 8, 2015 by

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I'm a PND & Anxiety survivor and self-confessed "good enough" mum to a hilarious but challenging 5-year-old, with a second baby due in May 2019 (eeek!). I share lots of Anxiety Management techniques as well as tips & self-care ideas for keeping mentally and emotionally well as a parent.

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