When postpartum depression makes you feel like a stranger to yourself

You love your baby—but you feel overwhelmed, anxious, numb, or ashamed.
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This minibook offers gentle, biblical help for mothers walking through postpartum depression
This resource is for you if:
You feel emotionally or mentally unlike yourself after having a baby.
You’re battling intrusive thoughts, fear, or despair.
You want hope that speaks to both your body and your soul.
Find Hope for This Hard Season
You don’t have to keep carrying this alone. Even here, in the confusion and heaviness, Christ meets you here. This short guide will help you anchor your heart in him again.
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What mothers are saying
I experienced the darkness of postpartum depression after both my sons were born and this is the resource I needed to read.
Christina Fox
M.S. LPC; author of A Heart Set Free: A Journey to Hope Through the Psalms of Lament
This beautiful resource helps readers to fix their eyes on truth and reorients them in what is likely a dark, puzzling season.
Jessika Sanders
Co-Author, In His Hands: Prayers for Your Child or Baby in a Medical Crisis
I felt seen in its pages, the voice of shame quieted by knowing I'm not the only one to have thought these thoughts or experienced these emotions.
Annie VanderHaden
Author, Cradled: Christ's Care for Postpartum Moms
What help looks like in this minibook
Many mothers experience “baby blues.” But what happens when the sadness deepens… and doesn’t go away?

When:

• Sleep deprivation clouds your thinking
• Your emotions feel unpredictable
• Your thoughts feel intrusive or frightening
• Your joy feels out of reach

This minibook helps you:

• Understand what’s happening in your body and mind
• Bring your fears honestly before God
• Anchor yourself in Scripture when your emotions feel unstable
• Take small, realistic steps toward help and hope

You won’t be shamed. You won’t be dismissed. You’ll be gently guided toward Christ.
About the Author

Christine Chappell is a certified biblical counselor, the author of Midnight Mercies: Walking with God through Depression in Motherhood, and a mother who has personally walked through postpartum depression. She writes and speaks to help women bring their suffering honestly before God and find hope in Christ.
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If you’re walking through postpartum depression, there is help—and there is hope.
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