Has the Facebook “like” replaced our real life connection with friends? I caught up with a friend last week who I hadn’t seen in 10 years. She’s someone from my high school days, one of the girls I sat in a circle with each lunchtime, eating sandwiches and assessing boys. We never had a falling […]
The most important question you could ask a new mom is how she’s doing. How she’s really doing. One of the most common things to emerge after I recently started to speak more openly about my struggle with severe postpartum mental illness (postpartum psychosis) was the amount of people who told me that they had […]
This originally appeared on Mamamia. Republished here with permission. There are three people in my marriage: me, my husband, and the woman my husband calls “Prudence.” Prudence looks a lot like me. She sounds like me. And she’s a mom. But the similarities end there. For the past 18 months, I’ve been really unwell. After […]
