Post
Pardon
Me
A fickle woman’s spiral into postpartum depression and anxiety and how the hell she found her way out of it. (Sort of.)
Suzanne is a former actor and Miss Arab USA turned writer. In her debut book, Post Pardon Me, she addresses the dark thoughts that so many mothers have but are too scared to say out loud.
There are the things that we’re thinking and there are the things that we’re allowed to say out loud.
“So, I’m not crazy about my kid. But you’re not allowed to say that to people. Evidently, there is definitely only one way you are supposed to feel—yes, mothers are like goddesses, but goddesses were fierce and pissy and emotional. It’s not easy goddessing.”
“I fear the silence. It’s terribly loud. It forces me to sit in my own thoughts. My thoughts seem dark and I want to avoid them. I’d rather not be in my own head dealing with whatever is going on in there. I want to pretend that everything is fine. It’s fine.
Is this the kind of thing that you can “fake it till you make it”?”
MOTHERHOOD
“Sometimes I look at him, waiting to feel the thing. I try to talk myself into it. I tell myself how cute he is, how I love him, how he’s my whole world. But I got nothin’.”
Motherhood is Sisterhood. We’ve got this Mamas. Because we’re in this TOGETHER.