Everyone asks me, “How did you get into the whole sleep consulting thing?”. I typically tell them about my non-sleeping kids, the lack of sleep, and about wanting to learn more about baby sleep so I could help other families. But…there is more to the story. It’s a combination of non-sleeping kids and mental health Read more about My PPD/PPA Story[…]
I would look into the mirror and wonder who was the person looking back at me. She looked like me, but did not feel like me. There was no spark in her eyes. She was living, but she wasn’t alive. This is a story of my journey with postpartum depression and anxiety. It snuck in Read more about The Time When I Lost Myself[…]
Everyone asks me, “How did you get into the whole sleep consulting thing?”. I typically tell them about my non-sleeping kids, the lack of sleep, and about wanting to learn more about baby sleep so I could help other families. But…there is more to the story. It’s a combination of non-sleeping kids and mental health Read more about My PPD/PPA Story[…]
I think it really began a few months into my pregnancy. I couldn’t tell how much of my mood was attributed to the changes my body was going through or the major life changes I was enduring. Moving across the country. A husband who travels for work, non stop. Briefly living with my parents in Read more about Swimming in Fog[…]
After the birth of my first son, the journey into motherhood was not easy.I could not accept help from anyone because the baby belonged to me.I would fuss over him and get angry at any advice or requests for support.Socially, I had locked up myself at home, cutting all contact with family and friends.Breastfeeding in Read more about Survivor of PPP[…]
My name is Diane. I developed obsessive-compulsive disorder when I was 13 years old. Obsessions seemed to be a part of my life as long as I can remember, but it was during 8th grade that the compulsions to wash, count, and organize to stop bad things from happening started. I hid this from everyone Read more about Teenage OCD, Adult Depression, Postpartum Mania[…]
Years ago, when I went to a training hosted by Postpartum Support International, the powerful professionals and survivors there taught me something that changed my life personally and professionally forever. Others who had walked the same path shared the name for what I had experienced; postpartum anxiety. Thoughts that had tortured me and scared me Read more about From Suffering to Surviving and Thriving[…]