Embodied Initiations

Insights and observations on the sacred nature of womanhood

Dawn Leonard Dawn Leonard

PPD is not a "mental health" crisis

I was listening to some reporting on the radio about Linsday Clancey and how this is bringing forward the conversation about maternal mental health. My friend Rachel used the word revenant which is generally defined as someone who returns (to life). That she "returned" to expose an invisible but systemic flaw so that we might root out the problem. Lindsay Clancey’s crisis was rooted in challenges specific to female biology.

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