When I turned 16 years old, I got pregnant with my son. Yes I know, I was very young. Before I knew I was pregnant, my family decided to move out of state. Several weeks after being in this new state, I found out I was pregnant. It took a long time for them to agree to allow me to move back to raise my son with his father, but they did. So here I am, thousands of miles away from my family, a newborn at 16, and struggling with mental health issues. After the pregnancy, it took a HUGE toll on my body. My hormones were completely out of whack after that birth. I went through so many different medications, birth control, and therapists. I just felt like that was going to be my life.
I am pregnant with another baby boy. At this point, my mom and her amazing new husband had moved back and I felt like I was at a pretty okay spot mentally. Not the best but it wasn’t terrible. My whole pregnancy was very rough. High risk and had a lot of complications. September 15, 2018, Liam was born at 27 weeks. I wasn’t even able to hold him. I was only able to touch his little head in the hallway where they were taking him to the ambulance to transport him. He was taken to a different hospital over an hour away right as he was born. That was heartbreaking. They weren’t able to release me from the hospital for me to go be with him because of complications I had during the C-section. 2 days later, Liam had passed away.
Being who I am, I didn’t want anyone to think of me as weak. So I hid all of my emotions… but by doing that, I didn’t grieve how I should have. I kept it all bottled inside for years. My oldest son who was 6 at the time, had a very rough time with Liam’s death as well. He slowly stopped wanting to play with friends, going to the store, talking to people.. little did I know, he was suffering from anxiety. He also dealt with ADHD so the combo of both was pretty rough for a 6-year-old. As time went on, it only got worse for him. He was having panic attacks every single morning before school and just begging me to stay home. Panic attack after panic attack. This was an extremely hard situation to be in as a mom who dealt with anxiety and depression myself to be able to comfort him the way that I should have. I was lost with myself so I was also lost with how to help him. One day I decided to just take him out of school and start him on medication.
He loved me and helped me with a lot of the mental health issues I had been dealing with. In 2022, we decided we wanted to have a baby before we got any older. So in 2023, we welcomed our beautiful baby girl! Everything seemed so perfect but I was still struggling pretty badly with anxiety and depression. Once again, I found myself struggling to let anyone know how bad it was. I found myself crying in my bathroom almost every single day. I was disgusted and disappointed in how I was treating my kids, my spouse, and my parents. It was like I was a ticking time bomb at all times of the day. I would get overwhelmed and overstimulated SO easily that every little thing made me angry. The way the kids would walk into the kitchen while I was cleaning.. the way my husband would try to put his arms around me from behind while I was doing dishes.. instant anger filled inside of me. Why?? That’s all I kept asking myself. Why am I like this??
I kept thinking, it’s my anxiety. It’s my mental health but I felt good with where my life was. I had a great husband. I had amazing kids. I had a newborn baby girl. Then I thought, “Is this what being a mom truly feels like?” It couldn’t be. It felt like something was attacking me. At this time of my life, I found God again. I just remember I would go to my parent's house to watch church on live TV with them and would just be astounded because it felt like he was talking to me. I knew I had to just let go.. let go and let God do his work. I remember stumbling across some videos about toxic things that are in everyone’s household. I fell down a rabbit hole and started to throw out every single product that was non-toxic in my house. I switched the laundry detergent, the dish soap, the shampoo and conditioner, the body wash, and the toothpaste. I also threw out all of my candles (and if you know me, those were my absolute favorite things), I even started buying organic at the grocery store. My husband began saying, “What’s next?” and all I could do was laugh. I slowly fell into wanting an all-natural, non-toxic household.
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So I partnered with this company and now I have the opportunity to help people achieve the same as me! I started to share on social media because I knew that there would be other women and moms out there dealing with the same thing as me and are probably just as lost as I was before finding these supplements.
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