<p>Ariane Beeston entered motherhood with the belief that she would experience an instant wave of love upon her son’s birth, expecting a seamless transition into parenting. However, reality unfolded quite differently. Instead of joy, Ariane found herself grappling with terrifying delusions about her own mortality, a deep-seated paranoia that social services would remove her child, and vivid hallucinations that transformed her baby into a menacing dragon. </p><p>We are thrilled to welcome Ariane Beeston who shares her lived experience of postpartum psychosis.</p><p>Ariane was a child protection worker - (later to be a registered psychologist) working for the Department of Communities and Justice in New South Wales when she gave birth to her baby, a little boy Henry, when she quickly began to experience frightening breaks with reality. She was later diagnosed with severe postpartum depression with psychotic features. At this point, I would like to issue a <strong>TRIGGER WARNING</strong> for this episode as we may be discussing eating disorders, infanticide, and suicide.</p><p>Ariane is now the Communications and Content Manager for the Centre of Perinatal Excellence, - known as COPE. She's also a dancer and a choreographer.</p><p><strong>"Talking the Glass House" </strong>is a CLKProductionsMedia presentation - all rights reserved</p><p><strong>Produced and written by Caroline Kell</strong>y - [email protected]</p><p><strong>Content Design and Socials </strong>- Daniel Borbely - Sequenced - [email protected]</p><p><strong>Sound Recordist: </strong>Fran Toscano - 17th Street Audio [email protected]</p><p><strong><u>WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!!!</u></strong></p><p><strong><u>****SEND IN YOUR EMAILS/QUESTIONS/COMMENTS - WITH "GLASS HOUSE QUESTION" IN SUBJECT LINE TO;</u></strong></p><p><strong>[email protected] </strong> - and we will endeavour to answer your question in a bonus episode at the end of the series.</p><p><strong>ARIANE'S BOOK "BECAUSE I'M NOT MYSELF YOU SEE"</strong></p><p>https://www.amazon.com.au/Because-Not-Myself-You-See-ebook/dp/B0CM4T4RJF</p><p><strong>COPE</strong> - Centre of Perinatal Excellence https://www.cope.org.au/</p><p><strong><u>READY TO COPE APP</u></strong></p><p>https://www.cope.org.au/readytocope/</p><p><strong>Liz Berry </strong>- Poet - https://www.lizberrypoetry.co.uk/</p><p><strong><em><u>Liz Berry reads "The Republic of Motherhood"</u></em></strong></p><p> <u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDyvUDZPyL0" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDyvUDZPyL0</a></u></p>