MENTAL AS A MOTHER
COMPULSIVE OVERSHARER: MOTHERHOOD, MENTAL HEALTH, AND MORE.
IN THE MEDIA
I love sharing my story to help normalise talking about mental health and the challenges of motherhood. Take a look at the latest articles I've contributed to and feel free to share with friends and family.
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21 MARCH 2023
As a self-confessed ‘flaming extrovert’, Lauren struggled with the isolating and all-consuming eat-play-sleep-bathe-repeat cycle of early motherhood. By six months postpartum, the newborn ‘love bubbles’ that she felt so intensely after both of her births became overshadowed by the onset of postpartum depression.
9 December 2022
A few months ago, I had a "mummy makeover". That’s the cutesy name given to a not at all minor operation where I was quite literally cut in half, had 60 stitches down the muscles of my abdominal wall, a huge section of loose, stretch-marked skin removed from my lower abdomen requiring an excision from hip to hip
23 April 2025
Earlier this month, the federal health department accepted an expanded definition of infertility that would allow LGBTIQ+ couples and single people to access Medicare rebates for assisted reproductive technology, including IUI and IVF. So, what more needs to be done to provide equal access to this vital technology?
9 November 2022
Surprising data reveals mental health support for new parents is lacking after the ease of COVID restrictions
5 NOVEMBER 2022
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