We recently connected with Anitra Cherelle and have shared our conversation below.
Anitra , we can’t begin to explain how much we appreciate you sharing about your PPD experience, but we can say that so many in our community are suffering from or have suffered from postpartum issues including postpartum depression and so you sharing your story and how you overcame it might help someone who is going through it right now or in the future. What can you share with us about how you overcame PPD? For readers, please note this is not medical advice, we are not doctors, you should always consult professionals for advice and that this is merely one person sharing their story and experience.
I am a mother of three and I experience PPD with my last daughter. I didn’t even realize it was PPD until I have a bad break down and began lashing out on my children. That led to me hating and blaming myself for everything. I remember I had just finished feeding my daughter and I starting thinking about how I could just end it all, I felt in that moment I was a failure no one loved me not even my children. I remember going through all the ways I could kill myself and not disrupt my children sleeping. As I began to discuss it with myself, God spoke to me and reminded me of Isaiah 41:10. God reminded me that I wasn’t alone and that he had me. In that moment I ask God to help me and begging to show me all these signs and series where He had never left me. That’s when I began my healing journey and I had to identify with what PPD was and I had to get to the root of why I felt that way. It was because of my daughter’s father and the reality of our relationship dynamic. So I had to began setting boundaries with him and that made my life easier and lighter.
Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
First I am an ambassador for Christ. I love to spread the word of God and help heal women in the process. I do this through my two brands anitracherellespeaks and SistHER in Christ.
Anitracherellespeaks is where the Empowering women by showing them the strength of their own words and using their past trauma as a steppingstone to their purpose. Our mission is to help women Identify, Strengthen, Become Aware of triggers to help navigate life after trauma. Our purpose is Helping Women walk boldly in their purpose by breaking generational curses and strongholds.
SistHER in Christ is a community that provides a safe space for women to grow in the word of God amongst their own peers. We have monthly prayer and Bible studies as well as fellowships.
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
Skills: Power Words, I have the ability to speak life into anyone.
Creativity: I can make a space for healing and growth out of nothing. I can set an atmosphere for
Knowledge:
Learning who you are in Christ, which will give us our identity in Christ
Find community, of like-minded women who will embrace you on your journey and support you through the process.
Most all of learning how to love yourself, in the current state you are in and living yourself through what you have been through.
What’s been one of your main areas of growth this year?
Accountability. In learning to take accountability, I had to take responsibility for my actions whether good or bad in situations in my life, which forced me to experience growth and be uncomfortable in those areas of my life which ultimately built my character.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anitracherellespeaks and https://www.instagram.com/sisther_in_christ_
- Facebook: SistHER in Christ , anitracherellespeaks
