If pregnancy is easy, motherhood will be too, right? With Homb founder Larissa Leone

When I listened back to that grab you'll hear at the top of this episode, it brought me to tears, and I imagine or at least dream that it's sending ripples of hope and warmth through the air waves to those who need to hear that today. She's the founder of Homb, the postpartum hotel where mothers are mothered, and it's a place that's nearly a decade in the making - the place she dreamed she could go when she suffered postnatal depression after her first baby was born. In another lifetime, she worked a far more corporate career, and after discovering more about her journey, it's easy to connect the dots - to understand how her personal experiences with early motherhood collided with her operational background to birth Homb.

This conversation touches on so many hard and beautiful things. In those early days, she felt lost, wonder, a sense of unravelling, and she went to some dark places. But, she emerged, and while those days will always stay with her, she learned a lot about herself and her life from them.

Here, we talk about the "I can do it all" grave Larissa dug herself, what she'd go back and tell herself as a new mum, what it's like to now work in what she describes as a swimming pool of triggers, and why we need to give mothers more time.

And just a note that this episode touches on suicidal ideation, so take care.

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