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
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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"
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