When you dream of having a baby you don't often stop to wonder what that dream really entails.

For many new mothers post natal depression is an unexpected and often unknown reality of becoming a mum. Our guest in this episode shares her journey as the sadness she felt postpartum led her all the way to hospitalised care. Within a traditional community, that found the reality hard to understand, she shares how she accessed the help she needed. Surrounded by endless advice from relatives (none of which was that she should seek professional help) our guest shares her road to finding her health and joy again.

Balancing themes of professional identity, the role of becoming a wife and mother in the more traditional Arab world and the critical reality of isolation and loneliness, she allows us to empathise the strength, braveness and sadness that comes with the truth of motherhood. 

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