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Most of you know about my journey through postpartum depression, and if you did not before - well, you do now.  :)  Since that time, God has led me to start a ministry to help and encourage other moms like me and families like us to get through such difficult and misunderstood times.  You can see [...]

A friend of mine shared this YouTube video with me.  I was crying all the way through it - not for sad reasons at all.  It is powerful.  My heart fills with amazing praise for the amazing God I serve and the Jesus who died to save me and all of you.  Just watch these Cardbooard [...]

I am so tickled, blessed, humbled and honored to be interviewed by Sue McRoberts, author of The Lifter of My Head:  How God Sustained Me During Postpartum Depression.   Its a great book and I highly recommend it.  Its been wonderful getting to know Sue as a sister in Christ, a sister in PPD ministry, and as [...]

I don’t like to delve much into politics.  I keep my opinions to myself about it all.  The heated arguments it causes just makes my blood pressure go somewhere above the stratosphere, makes me put my fingers into my ears while loudly singing “lalalalalalala” and then bang my head into the nearest wall.  Thus, it goes without [...]

Many of you know about my passion for postpartum depression ministry.  A friend of mine, Sue McRoberts, has (with 2 other accomplished women) launched a new blog to minister to new mommies and I can tell you it has blessed me already!  Sue wrote The Lifter of My Head, the first Christian book about postpartum [...]

Back in the fall, I was interviewed by Ms. Joanne Appleton out of England for a magazine published there called WomanAlive, equivalent to Today’s Christian Woman here in the United States.  She interviewed me for my journey and testimony about postpartum depression and subsequent ministry, Out of the Valley Ministries, Inc.  That article has now [...]

This is why I do what I do at Out of the Valley Ministries, a postpartum mood disorder ministry (non-denomiational Christian).
Death of Mom and Newborn Son in Alabama
The sadness and pain in my heart at reading this story just cannot be formed into words.  They are literally choked in my throat along with the tears.  This [...]