The beautiful & wonderful Yael Daphna Saar of PPD to Joy fame 
& I met over Twitter via the #PPDChat hashtag & the weekly chat forums. Our friendship has grown over the webisphere & mutual love & respect has grown exponentially. Yael’s mission through her website is to help those struggling with PND/PPD to learn to both disarm guilt & teach self-kindness. She runs a monthly SpeakEasy support phone chat where mothers domestically & globally meet, share, vent & care over the wires. It’s a truly wonderful & safe place that Yael has created & hopefully, if the stars align, I will be joining Yael & all the other mums that call this Wednesday March 14, at 12.30pm (AEST).
Following my posts on Postpartum Progress last month, Yael asked me to write a guest post on her blog about my battle with PND/PPD within the confines of the Jewish community in Melbourne & how my background affected my illness & recovery.
After years (literally) of typing to each other we finally met over Skype last week just as this blog post went live.
Here it is:
I hope that we have the opportunity of sharing many more posts on each others blogs in the future.
Just commented over there, but so happy to see you writing and sharing your voice with more. It’s so wonderful.
Robin, just so you know – you are my first comment on my blog. Hold the trophy high my friend xoxo
I have no words to describe how happy I am to have your voice at my place, and to have your voice loud and clear at your own place again. Woohoo!
And today, I’m visiting her site with this guest post. If you hang out with me a lot, much of that post there will be fmailiar, so in this case don’t worry about my words and click around her site.a0 Robin is such a talented and fierce writer, writing such important truths, you really should just go see for yourself.