Hi, guys, welcome back to Previlliance podcast.

I am so excited today.

I have a lady I adore, personally, professionally, anyway, you can't adore someone.

Ms. Page Balmband with us. And if she's new to you, oh my gosh, what a great day. If she's not, you're just going to love her anymore. Paige, welcome, my friend. Thank you for being with me. Sarah, it's always a pleasure to be with you. I think you're such a rock star and all the work that you've done in the perinatal mental health space. So I am just

as over the moon to be here with you. So thanks for having me. If somebody's never met,

Paige, tell us about her. Tell us all the wonderful things that you're doing, have done and doing

so that they realize what's fixing to grace their ears? So I am a person who experienced a PMAD.

20 years ago, after my son was born,

I had severe postpartum depression and anxiety,

and I always say I'm very lucky to be here.

It took me months and months to get support and care and treatment and even as a trained

licensed clinical social worker who was meant to identify mental health risk and others. When it was

happening to me, I had no idea what was going on. I just felt like I was drowning in an ocean

and paddling as fast as I could to keep my head above

water and breathe. I finally did get treatment and as a result of slowly but surely feeling like

myself again, I got really pissed because there were so many people that I spoke with that were

suffering just like myself. And there was not a lot of

nothing at the time by way of support or education to let new and expecting mothers and birthing

people know how common it is to suffer from these conditions. And so I guess advocating for,

educating around treating people with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders has become my third child. I went on to have a second. I did not experience a PMA

that time because I took my medication through pregnancy and I saw my therapist all throughout

the postpartum period, I knew how to

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