We can be saved in tiny ways every day by people we meet, even just once. Five years ago, a month after the birth of my first son, I was saved like this by a midwife at the Coombe hospital. I’d had four weeks of steadily worsening mental health. I knew a lot about depression […]
Tag: post-partum
Roots
‘You, the unstable, must become a tree’ This is what we have to do as parents. No matter what has happened in your life, no matter where you are, how often you have messed up, how many bad choices you have made, your roots come down when you have children. You stop letting the wind […]