Suzanne is a former actor and Miss Arab USA turned writer. Her personal experience with postpartum depression and anxiety left her feeling alone and confused.
In her book Post Pardon Me, she addresses the dark thoughts that so many mothers have but are too scared to say out loud. She's thrilled to get this book into the hands of mothers who may be struggling with postpartum depression and anxiety.
You get to be all the things. Why didn’t I know this before?!
I thought being a mom meant that I couldn’t have the rest of my life available to me. That I could no longer act or the creative or fight for people’s rights. I thought I had to buy a minivan, put on that apron and shut the hell up about topics of the day.
Lord, I was so wrong.
In motherhood, just like in life, it is what you make it. And I want it, motherhood, to be big and loud and soft and quiet and whatever it is that I need it to be .
Depression takes those thoughts away from you. It lies to you and tells you that you can’t have the life you want. When the fog cleared I saw the life I wanted and I made it.
I’m the boss now.