Our Wish for All Moms Experiencing Postpartum Mood & Anxiety Disorders
Hayden Panettiere spoke yesterday about the amazing support she received when she announced she was entering treatment for postpartum depression. “The more open I was, the more acceptance I got from people,” she said. “I got so much support and so...
Finding the Good After a Loss to Suicide
Our community feels a little lost, a little angry, a little unsettled right now in light of the loss of a mama to postpartum depression. We’ve been talking about it and how the loss to suicide of Sasha Hettich has affected us on our Facebook page, so I thought...
Postpartum Depression Stigma Persists Even In Federal Government
Update: We did hear back from the Office of Women’s Health quite quickly and they apologized for the tweet even though it didn’t come from their office. They assured us that they are fully supportive of moms with perinatal mental illness and that they...
The Dignity of Every Recovery Path
[Editor’s note: This guest post had me giddy from the very first sentence. I too, have always related to Perkins-Gilman’s story, The Yellow Wallpaper, even before I became a mother. After experiencing my own maternal mental health challenges, I discovered...
Birth Trauma: Coping with Triggers
The following is a guest post written by Karin Beschen, a Warrior Mom living in Iowa with her husband and two sons. She works as a psychotherapist, specializing in perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. This morning I walked outside to grab the newspaper and...
Meet Katherine
Katherine Stone is the creator of Postpartum Progress. She is a survivor of postpartum anxiety & OCD. Follow her on Twitter at @postpartumprog or on Instagram at @katherine_stone.
Meet Katherine
Katherine Stone is the creator of Postpartum Progress. She is a survivor of postpartum anxiety & OCD. Follow her on Twitter at @postpartumprog or on Instagram at @katherine_stone.