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.
We are thrilled to welcome Ariane Beeston who shares her lived experience of postpartum psychosis.
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 TRIGGER WARNING for this episode as we may be discussing eating disorders, infanticide, and suicide.
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.
"Talking the Glass House" is a CLKProductionsMedia presentation - all rights reserved
Produced and written by Caroline Kelly - clkproductionsmedia@gmail.com
Content Design and Socials - Daniel Borbely - Sequenced - daniel@sequence-ed.com
Sound Recordist: Fran Toscano - 17th Street Audio fran@17thstreetaudio.com
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!!!
****SEND IN YOUR EMAILS/QUESTIONS/COMMENTS - WITH "GLASS HOUSE QUESTION" IN SUBJECT LINE TO;
clkproductionsmedia@gmail.com - and we will endeavour to answer your question in a bonus episode at the end of the series.
ARIANE'S BOOK "BECAUSE I'M NOT MYSELF YOU SEE"
https://www.amazon.com.au/Because-Not-Myself-You-See-ebook/dp/B0CM4T4RJF
COPE - Centre of Perinatal Excellence https://www.cope.org.au/
READY TO COPE APP
https://www.cope.org.au/readytocope/
Liz Berry - Poet - https://www.lizberrypoetry.co.uk/
Liz Berry reads "The Republic of Motherhood"
Popular Podcasts
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Football’s funniest family duo — Jason Kelce of the Philadelphia Eagles and Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs — team up to provide next-level access to life in the league as it unfolds. The two brothers and Super Bowl champions drop weekly insights about the weekly slate of games and share their INSIDE perspectives on trending NFL news and sports headlines. They also endlessly rag on each other as brothers do, chat the latest in pop culture and welcome some very popular and well-known friends to chat with them. Check out new episodes every Wednesday. Follow New Heights on the Wondery App, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to new episodes early and ad-free, and get exclusive content on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And join our new membership for a unique fan experience by going to the New Heights YouTube channel now!
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!