Mumma, you are not alone.
Motherhood and PND: you are not alone.
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Little Depression
Yoga AND Xanax: a fine balance
In the quest to lead a clean, healthy life, don’t forget that modern medicine will sometimes have an important part to play.
This sad girl lives in me and I don’t think she’s ever leaving…
{Source} At my very worst, I would wish to fall. Walking down the stairs at work, I thought maybe if I just missed a step, tumbled to the bottom, I could rest a while. I was 24 years old and I was exhausted. I thought having an accident, perhaps breaking my leg, would […]
Treading softly with my sadness
[Photo source] It was a bad weekend. So when the alarm sounded at 5:30am this morning, my instinct was to roll over and go back to the relative safety of sleep. But the inner dialogue had already begun. Get up, Angie. Go to the gym. You will feel better once it is done. You will […]
I think depression is getting me down
Motherhood and depression do not go well together. Well, obviously. Depression doesn’t go well with anything – except maybe a songwriter penning an emo ballad. But the reason I’m thinking of specifically is how confusing it can be to determine what is genuine depression and what are the normal frustrations that all mums deal […]
Hope Springs
On the precipice of sleep, she lay in my arms. Her eyelashes fluttered. So, so close. I was not in the moment. I was waiting to extricate myself from the moment. Because always, there is something else that needs doing. I could hear it escalating in the lounge room. A disagreement, a fight. Someone took […]
In The Wake II
Day 6 after Harlow was born – someone needs a tissue…and possibly an eyebrow wax… Taking a newborn baby home is intense. They are very small and very loud and they look super-breakable. Sometimes they sleep, often they don't and then there is the question of baths, boobs, bottles and bums. It's a lot to […]
The Wall
School Holidays; Day Four. This was how long it took for me to hit the wall. Truthfully, they were beginning to give me the shits by lunchtime on Day One. But it wasn’t until Day Four that drinking from a bathtub of vodka with a straw began to seem like a good idea. I wanted […]
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