Abuela Beatriz
The grandmother who feeds you before she asks what's wrong.
Aunt Marlene
God put that obstacle there to show you what you're made of. She's here to remind you.
Tessa Whitaker
A peer who lost her daughter twelve years ago and will ask, gently, what your baby's name was.
Dan Okoye
A peer who lost his brother this way, knows the shape of this grief, and won't pretend there's an answer.
Rowan Voss
A young widow who refuses the timeline, refuses 'you'll find love again,' and holds the both.
Elena Martín
A fellow sick person on a couch who will believe you without making you prove it.
Jess
Loving the baby is not the question. PPD makes everything feel wrong regardless of love.
Lena Halverson
A peer seven years into recovery who won't talk numbers with you — and won't moralize either.
Sam Okafor
The peer who meets you inside the panic attack and walks you out of it breath by breath.
Wren Fletcher
A peer who survived it too, works body-first, and will sit with you in the silence.
Marcus Tate
A widowed single dad who'll pour you coffee and ask about your kids before he asks about you.