Last week a friend brought us supper, and sat and ate with us while our 14 month old Leona shrieked (because she doesn’t yet have words to tell us what she wants/needs) and cried (because molars hurt). After my husband biked off to his Buddhist sangha gathering, my friend (who does not have children) said, […]
Postpartum Depression
#highlowmum
Did you know that last week was Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week? I knew that May is Mental Health Month, and that we at the UCC Mental Health Network are encouraging congregations to recognize Mental Health Sunday. But one of the blessings for me of social media has been learning about Maternal Mental Health Awareness […]
Reporting Back:
7 weeks of parenthood
My husband and I have been parents for almost seven weeks now, to a wonderful baby girl named Leona Joyce. Back in April, I wrote a post about post- and peripartum depression, and the stigma I sensed and feared, as well as some scripture that gave me comfort. I’m only at the very beginning of […]
Knit in my mother’s womb
I’m quickly approaching 30 weeks pregnant with our first child, and I’ve been thinking about stigma around mental health from what feels like a new angle. I’ve lived with anxiety and mild depression for quite a while, and feel very comfortable talking about how helpful I find a therapist and the fact that I take […]