Hey guys, welcome back to the preview alliance podcast this is Sarah and before we dive into this episode I

introduce our very special guest I just want to do a trigger warning for anybody that's

listening today's topics or we're going talk about post-parm psychosis and we're gonna hear from a survivor

and these topics can be triggering and hard.

So if you are not in the mental space right now, there's little's in the car, if you're just kind of in a space of where maybe life is just not giving you a break and you're just not ready to hear a story.

That is true and honest and it happens. Take a pause, come back to us when you are.

So just that little warning with you guys, but as always it's a safe space for you. So if you're ready, let's dive right in.

Hi Christina, welcome. So great to be here.

Thanks for having me.

Well, I have known you for a little bit,

and to our moms and listeners who have not heard of you yet, which by time this episode airs, you will have received an award,

so I'm sure your name will be born known, but please give everybody just a little intro about you

and what brings you here today.

Yeah, absolutely, I'm happy to do that.

So I am Christina Delaney and I am a wife and a mom of two beautiful little girls. We currently live in East Tennessee. I'm originally from Raleigh, North Carolina, and I am here because of the lived experience I had with postpartum psychosis about eight or nine years ago.

Certainly not something my family and I had prepared for or even had heard anything about.

So I really just share my story to help others and educate and raise awareness around

perinatal mental health conditions,

but more specifically postpartum psychosis.

And both of us are nurses, and I can say this,

I don't remember it in nursing school

or any of my nursing experience being taught really about

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