This episode is a real one.

I’m Marley, and in this episode of Becoming Both I chat with Kate — a mum to a 13-month-old — about the messy, very real side of motherhood… especially when you’re doing it without much family support.

We get into a lot in this conversation.

Kate shares her experience with long-term anxiety and depression, and how that showed up through pregnancy (after a previous loss) and into postpartum. We talk about what actually helped — a supportive partner, consistent midwife care, therapy, and eventually medication — and how stigma within her family made reaching out for that support feel even harder.

But the bigger thread running through this episode is estrangement and boundaries.

Not the dramatic version people expect — the quieter, more confusing version where things just don’t feel r ...