ear Unfinished Blog Posts, This post is dedicated to you — all 83 of you patiently waiting on the back end of my WordPress site begging to be released into the world. I’m sorry to be the barer of bad news, but that day will never come. A few years ago, I would have proudlyContinue reading “An Ode to All the Drafts I’ll Never Publish”
Monthly Archives: December 2021
Thinking with Dyane Harwood: Birth of a New Brain
Although I lived with a bipolar diagnosis years before my own crisis with mania and depression during pregnancy, I was intrigued by both the familiarity and foreignness of postpartum bipolar.* As I began to do more research, I stumbled across Dyane Harwood’s memoir Birth of a New Brain: Healing from Postpartum Bipolar Disorder (2017). TheContinue reading “Thinking with Dyane Harwood: Birth of a New Brain”
Healing Journey: Food & Fitness
This week was the first time since 2019 that I had been inside a gym or a group fitness space. Believe it or not, in my past life (from 2017-2019) I was actually a fitness instructor. I stopped teaching fitness classes when I got pregnant and quickly descended into my most frightening and prolonged manicContinue reading “Healing Journey: Food & Fitness”
Emerging Out of the Wormhole
If you follow this blog, you may have notice that I’ve fallen off my weekly posting rhythm. The last couple of weeks have been quite hellish in my head and in my household. My toddler got her first cold and came down with the terrible twos.(The tantrums and antics have been particularly pronounced!) My husband,Continue reading “Emerging Out of the Wormhole”
Nadia Naomi Mbonde 