Postnatal Depression, known as PND, is a common experience for women after they have had a baby.
You don't have to suffer alone, reach out so that you can begin to enjoy this time rather than just survive it.
EMDR Psychological Therapy for Birth Trauma
Improving the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Expectant and New Parents
The perinatal period, from preconception through to 3 years after birth, is critical time where the mental health of a baby begins, and it is a unique time where women are highly motivated to seek help.
There is a complexity to women’s mental health. In the perinatal period, there are significant hormonal changes, physical body changes, identity changes, role changes, workplace and financial changes and often significant shifts and changes within our social and attachment relationships.
“It’s Just Grief”
Grief morphs, it hides, it lingers, it waits for the unexpected trigger to set it free once again, unyielding, and unpredictable, grief can be all consuming.
Grief lies in our anticipated future, our longed for past and the all too painful present. It taps into our attachment systems, our belief systems, and sits not just in our cognitions but within our bodies.