Tag: maternal mental health
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5 Tips for the Overstimulated Mom
Let’s just address the facts of life. Parenting and motherhood is loud, messy, and overwhelming. It is wildly common to feel overstimulated by the noise, over touched by the baby and toddlers crawling on you, and just an overall sensory overload. I am sharing today on 5 simple tips to help you manage the overload…
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Stories of Motherhood: I survived Postpartum Depression {Part One}
I survived Postpartum Depression (PPD). One big reason is that many people who experience maternal mental illness are too scared to talk about it for fear they will be seen as a bad mother. My personal battle with maternal mental illness was against postpartum depression. An illness I describe as a slow-moving fog of blackness…