Veronica Talks

How is it that I blinked and she turned 6 months old?!😭🩷

I’ve been told I “let myself go”…

Let me explain what actually happened.

I had two babies in under two years.
Two C-sections.
Sleepless nights.
Hormones crashing.
A body healing while raising tiny humans.

So yes, I look different.

But I didn’t let myself go.

I gave everything I had.

This body carried life.
This body survived surgery.
This body shows up every day, even when it’s exhausted.

If that looks like “letting myself go” to you, then you’ve clearly never been postpartum.

I didn’t lose myself.

I became a mother.

Let’s talk about drugs … 💊

The good kind.

We’ve advanced so much medically. So much research has been done & so many lives saved because of health care.

Is healthcare always good?

No. Some places are under staffed, underpaid. Some countries don’t have enough health care resources.

Some healthcare professionals have failed people that have trusted them with their lives. As sad as it is, there are bad apples in every field( which shouldn’t be the case in the medical system) .

What I can say is doctors saved my life& my kids lives, countless times.
From medications to emergency c sections, if we didn’t have these, we wouldn’t have made it.

What I can also say is since being on my mental health medication, I’ve gotten a lot of backlash and negativity and lack of support.

I’ve got people who aren’t even professionals telling me I should try to “naturally” manage my bipolar disorder, BPD, anxiety, depression and PTSD (all things I was diagnosed for).

As much as I love natural ways, it doesn’t always work.

What people don’t know is I’ve tried natural stuff and with a chemical imbalance, there really isn’t anything natural that is effective.

Maybe one day they’ll be but as of now- I take two different medications each day and a total of 4 pills.

Long story short, don’t make assumptions about what somebody else is going through, and if you’re not a medical professional, don’t go around giving advice you have no knowledge about.

You never know if somebody’s situation and you actually never know what someone’s going through until you’ve been through it.

So next time you hear that somebody’s on medication, please keep your two cents to yourself because you don’t even know a quarter of the situation.

Like I said,

Doctors have saved my life and my children’s lives and I am forever grateful🫶🏻🥹

You deserve to be happy ❤️

your calling in the home carries spiritual weight even when no one applauds it.

In case you need this today. 🐾🤍

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