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Category: Lindsay’s Blog
What has Maternal Mental Illness done to my son?
From the moment our little ones are born, parents start to worry about them. From […]
PND & Finding ME in MothErhood
PND has, at times, really stretched my relationships with others – I will post more […]
Seeing Red – Why I’m ANGRY at PND
There are many emotions and feelings that have passed through my mind and into my […]
Maternal Mental Health & My Struggle Breastfeeding
As I begin, let me state plainly – I am an advocate for Perinatal Mental […]
Natural/Herbal Remedies for PND & Anxiety
Many of you have been asking me this question, so I thought I’d post about […]
Authentic Recovery – Under a cloud
This has been a hard week. I’ve been blogging a lot recently and I’ve been […]
My Mental Health & Caesarean Section
I’ve come to smile about the fact that my antenatal/postnatal story is not one that […]
PND & Hair Loss
I haven’t mentioned much about this before, but one of the physical consequences of Postnatal […]
“I have been seriously ill”
“I have been very unwell” – words that came into my head about 3 weeks […]
PND & Anxiety
One of the most prevalent symptoms of PND, for me, has been anxiety. Before now, […]
Motherhood & Isaiah 43
I never do this! Despite having given countless sermons and talks over the years, I […]
Why Do I Do What I Do?
A couple of weeks ago, I read a great and challenging article about how important […]
When the Roses aren’t Red and the Violets aren’t Blue…
Last weekend was Valentine’s Day, I’m sure that fact can’t have passed you by. If […]
My experience of Citalopram, Antidepressant
What’s it really like to take Antidepressants? I think many of us ask that, especially […]
Two Forward, One Back
For me, this has been a bad week. It’s what some of might call a […]
Letter to the Mum in Asda
You don’t know me, I don’t know you. But for a second our eyes met […]
Letter to Reuben, my son, about my PND struggle
I often wonder how I will cope when Reuben is ready to hear, and try […]
Letter To Me
I’ve been thinking, if I could go back in time, what I would tell my […]
Lose Your Way, Find Yourself
‘Well you go through life So sure of where you’re heading And you wind up […]