Buy the jeans; postpartum mental health

Sometimes the postpartum depression & anxiety comes even with the meds, even with the therapy, even with the world’s kindest, calmest baby.

So I buy the jeans that fit my body today, not in a couple months. I warm my face in the rare magic of sunlight. I dream up a new little project for our little house.

Sometimes the littlest things are the biggest things. Sometimes the depression meets its match in the gentle care of a partner, the many hands that hold you up, and your own fierce will to find beauty in this world.

So I thank God for these graces today 🌞