A little bit about me….
Hi! Thanks for stopping by. My name is Jess, and I am a FTM to my daughter Natalie, who will be 3 months old on May 3rd. Besides being her mom, I’m also a wife to my husband Steve. I’m a daughter. I’m a sister. I’m a hairdresser. I have a music education degree, so I guess you could say I’m a singer and a flute player. I’m a Starbucks addict. I love my peloton. I enjoy being active. I’m a fashionista, for sure. I love me a new outfit and good clothing find. I am an extreme Disney adult. In fact, my friend and I co-host a Disney podcast together entitled “Parks and Pixie Dust Podcast.” Check it out! If I could go to Disney World every month, I would. Yes, i’m a Disney freak. Besides all these fun things, I also struggle with depression and anxiety. I have struggled with it for a VERY long time. I can recall being a freshman in college and feeling incredibly homesick thinking that college just wasn't for me. Looking back, I’m glad I got through it and made myself finish, but I don’t look back at college and think “oh man, this was the best time of my life.” If anything, it was probably the hardest time in my life, because I believe I had undiagnosed anxiety, and definitely depression. It was all new to me, and trying to figure out how to deal with that, on top of doing well in school was just…..really hard.
As I said, I’m about 3 months pp, and I am a first time mom. I wanted to start this blog just to create a dialogue and awareness that anyone struggling with mental illness is truly not alone. Becoming a new mom can make you feel incredibly alone. With hormones raging everywhere, often times during my maternity leave I have felt, well, insane frankly. I would love any feedback and if there are any topics you’d like me to talk about, give me a shoutout. I just want to leave you new moms with, you’re not alone in your struggles. You will get through this. I’m here for you. And, it’s truly okay if you don’t always have your shit together. I certainly don’t. Nobody has it all figured out.
-Jess