Hello and welcome to the Slow Home Podcast. This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast-paced world.

And I'm Brooke McCallory. I'm Ben McCallery and welcome to episode 213. In this episode, you speak to the lovely Chelsea Pottinger.

I do indeed. So who's Chelsea? So Chelsea is a, she's a mindfulness expert. She's studying to be a

clinical psychologist. Chelsea is also someone who has had a very similar trajectory through

early parenthood to me. We connected over Facebook actually and Chelsea shared a bit her story, and I knew that I wanted to talk to her.

Because timing is perfect, really.

It's Postnatal Depression Awareness Week right now in Australia, and Chelsea and I have both suffered post-natured depression.

And interestingly, have both used it as a vehicle for improving

our mental health, not just, you know, not just in that kind of circle of post-natal depression,

but in every area of life. And Chelsea and I had both kind of used it to create a new chapter

of work and life.

So it was really wonderful to sit down and talk to her about it.

Now following this conversation, you came out and you said something really, really interesting to me.

Do you remember what you said?

I remember what I said.

Why don't you share it and explain why you said it?

Well, I said that I was glad for my post-noded depression in the end.

Not glad for the impact that it had on you or the kids or people around us

because I understand the toll it took.

But I can see it now as a blessing, as the blessing that it was,

because it forced me to be challenged and to be highly uncomfortable

and to really examine myself and my self-beliefs and my behaviours and thought patterns

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