Women with PMADs persevere with grit and guts only the strongest of strong know. They didn’t sign up to experience depression or anxiety during or after childbirth, but have in their bones a power unsurpassed by most. Against all odds, and in the face of stigma, families that don’t understand, and providers who fail to ask, treat, or acknowledge symptoms, they fight.

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The words “you have breast cancer” forever changed me. There is the initial disbelief and then the profound, down-to-the-bones knowledge that life is utterly beyond our control and, at times, sucks. I had a toddler and an infant and breast cancer. There are no words. Rather than grow more fear of the unknown, I want to plant seeds of power in anyone who needs some words of encouragement.

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