I am the lived experience.

In the middle of COVID, an emergency caesarean was followed by eight months of undiagnosed postnatal anxiety, until a call to PANDA led to two weeks in a maternal mental health unit. That crisis sat on top of years of undiagnosed endometriosis, ADHD and complex PTSD, and it cost me time, money and more than I like to admit, because the system is not built to catch mothers before they fall.

I want to help women and mothers at every stage: to build the kind of support that catches burnout early, and to push for workplaces and policies that do not leave the next mother to survive it alone.

If what nearly broke me can become the thing that makes it a little easier for the next mother, it is worth building.