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If you are experiencing suicidal thoughts, please call 000 or refer to these resources to get urgent help.

In my training, I was taught to look for what’s wrong: the symptoms, the risks, the things that aren’t working.

It’s a useful lens for a lot of what I do. But it’s a strange one to bring to matrescence, to becoming a mother.

We talk about mental health recovery as if the goal is return: bouncing back, getting back to normal, finding your way to the person you used to be.

But illness, loss, and major transitions change us at a fundamental level: how we see ourselves, wh

Most people who come to me convinced they are not doing enough cannot find the evidence when I ask for it, because the evidence usually doesn’t exist.

What exists is a feeling that is remarkably persuasive and has very little to do with what i

🐆 She has arrived - with warrior-queen energy. Arriving with that confident air of someone who knows she’s the best-looking thing in the room even before the walls are finished.

She is not just a chair. She is a place to land.

This fabric

Mental illness will touch most of us at some point in our lives.

And yet the conversations we’ve normalised, the stress, burnout, low mood, anxiety, still feel very different from the ones we haven’t.

The moment something tips into so

Let me tell you a little story… circa 2014. Royal Women’s Hospital, night shift — Amy steadying frightened mums with that calm voice, me chasing results. Two exhausted clinicians, one mission. Fast forward twelve years — full

New research published last month by Zhai et al found that first trimester depression raises the odds of preterm birth by 60%.

And that effect was strongest in women with low social support.

I want us to sit with that finding for a moment because w

When a thought turns up, like ‘Am I doing this right?’, ‘Is the baby okay?’, ‘Why do I feel like this?’ with nowhere to put it, it just loops.

You start ruminating on it at 3am, then it grows and by morning, a sm

Okay, let's talk about a little phrase we've all probably said: "everyone's a bit ADHD these days," or "aren't we all a little on the spectrum?"

It almost always comes from a lovely place/

It's us reaching for connection, basi

I love the way a single conversation, when it finally has enough room, has the ability to reorganise everything because what was already there finally got to be seen all at once.

I think about this outside of the clinic too: the way we carry fragmen

I want to introduce you to Em.

She’s a Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, which tells you her qualifications but not very much about what she actually does, which is make people feel like they’re not navigating this alone.

She’s th

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I acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the traditional custodians of the lands and waters we live, work and heal on. I extend respects to the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nation; their Elders past, present and emerging. I also acknowledge and celebrate their stories, culture and traditions.

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