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Updated on August 27, 2025September 27, 2019Leave a CommentBlog MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH

How I Turned My Postpartum Depression Into My Superpower

Hello! If we haven’t met yet, I am Ivana. I run MumsJourney, a blog dedicated to supporting mums through every stage of motherhood. I’m also the author of Motherhood: The Unspoken and an award-winning maternal mental health advocate and mentor. After giving birth to my twins in 2016, I experienced severe postpartum depression (PPD). It …

Updated on November 5, 2025September 18, 2019Leave a CommentLIFE AFTER BABY MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH

The BEST Advice I Got As A New Mum

Before your baby arrived, you probably imagined snuggles, overhwelming love, and that magical “new mum glow.” But now that the baby is here, it’s nothing like what you pictured. Instead of glowing, you feel drained and quietly wondering, “Am I the only one finding this so hard?” You are not alone feeling like this. After …

I am author of Motherhood - The Unspoken, motivational speaker, award-winning mental health advocate, mother of three mixed race children (including twins) & wife to an amazing husband, who is on a mission to stop silent struggles and postnatal depression.

Ivana Poku

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