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The Notes From Postnatal Depression

Dorota Chioma

19 Apr 2021

...offers an insight into a common mental health illness experienced by new mums and mums-to-be....

The Notes From Postnatal Depression - Healing Through Art offer an insight into a common mental health illness experienced by new mums and mums-to-be. Although it is so common it is stigmatised. This book aims to normalise this condition. It evidences my own journey towards healing. It contains a scientific insight into depression, a personal perspective building a background to my story, as well as the images and poetry form a collection of my creative outputs during the early stages of art therapy. It is a tribute to finding myself through art and embarking on a new chapter of my life as an artist. It evidences the fact that sometimes we need to break into pieces to reassemble our life into a better composition, to find the sealing agent within us to hold us whole...

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