#367: How a New Mom Healed From Debilitating Postnatal Depression and FINALLY Got Her Life Back | Gemma’s Super Story
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Mimi Bouchard
4.4 • 953 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
One of the most moving Super Stories I’ve had the privilege to record. It’s about postnatal depression, breaking taboos, and how one brave mom willing to share her darkest days turned everything around. Gemma thought everything was going to be easy. They were ready for a baby. Then COVID struck, and between dealing with a newborn, the isolation and fear… her mental health spiraled. She loved her baby but she no longer recognized who she was. Nothing felt normal. She raged, hallucinated and sunk deeper into despair. Finally diagnosed with severe postnatal depression and given proper meds, she began to experiment with other modalities, including meditation. When she found Superhuman, that’s when everything started to change. If you’re a new mom struggling with your emotions, this is one Super Story you won’t want to miss.
Topics:
-Gemma’s life before the baby.
-The moment after the birth when she knew something wasn’t right.
-Anxiety, paranoia, insomnia, why she assumed this was just new motherhood…
-Then came postpartum rage and sheer emptiness; she felt there was no way out of despair.
-How it affected her marriage.
-Why she waited so long before going to the doctor.
-Her diagnosis—postnatal depression—gave her relief but also made her aware of what a stigma new moms face when things with a baby aren’t “perfect”.
-The meds began to work. With more clarity, she started trying other things, like meditation.
-Discovering Superhuman, and how easily the walking meditations fit into her new routines.
-Her breakthrough moment, when she knew things were getting better…and BETTER.
-Her advice for other new moms going through dark times.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I was so overwhelmed everything was so overwhelming the good feelings as well as the bad feelings even the love and the connection that I always had with feelings was so overwhelming it was like claustrophobic. |
| 0:15.2 | How dark did it get for you? |
| 0:18.2 | Very dark actually. I definitely had a few months where I would have what I've learned to be called suicidal ideation. |
| 0:27.6 | I couldn't see any other way out. |
| 0:29.9 | I was so lost in this box of nothingness and emptiness and that was a dark place to be. |
| 0:37.2 | I've got a baby now, like this is not normal. |
| 0:40.0 | My name is Mimi Bouchard, founder of Superhuman, the transformational app that helps you become your future self, |
| 0:47.0 | so that you can finally start attracting more joy, abundance, health, wealth, and love into your life. And that's also my mission on this |
| 0:55.8 | podcast. Meet people whose lives have been transformed in big and small ways, but |
| 1:01.8 | always for the better. |
| 1:03.3 | They tell me how they did it, so that you can too. |
| 1:07.0 | Today on the podcast, a very special super story |
| 1:10.6 | with a woman named Jemma, |
| 1:12.4 | after a crippling bout of post-natal depression and anxiety, |
| 1:15.9 | this is exactly what Jemma did on the path to recovery. |
| 1:21.0 | Hi, Jemma. |
| 1:22.0 | Hi, Jemma. Hi, Mimi. First of all, I'm Mimi. |
| 1:23.0 | First of all, I just wanted to say thank you for agreeing to share your story with us. |
| 1:30.0 | By talking about it, you make it easier for other new moms to share their struggles, |
| 1:35.9 | and I'm just very appreciative for you coming on. |
| 1:39.3 | Well, I'm appreciative for you having me because it's something that can be quite difficult for people to talk about but you know |
| 1:47.3 | Has to be done |
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