The Secret Life of Mothers

Eve Canavan: Perinatal Mental Health Champion

Eve Canavan is the Co-Founder and Coordinatorof Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week. Having experienced Postpartum Psychosis after the birth of her son, Eve began blogging about her experience and established the voluntary group Perinatal Mental Health Partnership anddevised the Awareness Week, a free yearly global resource, highlighting Perinatal Mental Health, how to access support and focusing on the organisations and services that support recovery. She is the UK Coordinator for Postpartum Support International and a media volunteer for Mind and Action on Postpartum Psychosis. She also shaped the character Stacey Slater's postpartum psychosis storyline on #Eastenders. Eve received the British Empire Medal for Services toMental Health in Her Majesty’s New Year Honours in 2017.  Insta: @eviecanavan

Carving My Own Story

Madhu Senaratne is a lecturer, researcher and writer. She holds a PhD, and her work focuses on voice, power, and ethicsin storytelling. She currently lectures in areas of humanitarian reporting, and media and development. She has previously worked as a journalist and with the United Nations in conflict and post-conflict contexts. She has published numerous academic and creative pieces. Her debut poetry pamphlet Mother Self explores the everyday realities of motherhood, focusing on identity, care, andthe emotional complexity of that experience, capturing both its vulnerabilities and its strengths. Instagram: motherselfstory mothers_uncovered

Parenting After Twin Loss

Elaine Gregersen is an award-winning writer, public speaker, and podcast coach based in the North East of England. She writes and speaks about baby loss, caring, grief, and creativity. In 2025, she won the Allyson Kent Prize for Fearless Writing. She has also been shortlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction Prize and the Curae Literary Prize. Her pop culture podcast, The Honeymoon Period, reaches listeners in over 60 countries and has beenfeatured in The Guardian and Film Stories.   Instagram: elainegwrites

Navigating Young(ish) Motherhood

Chloe Saunders is the Director of The Afterbirth Club, a community supporting parents through the messy, in between stages of parenthood.Alongside this, she works in cyber security, balancing a structured professional world with advocacy, podcasting and community building. She brings an honest perspective on motherhood lived in the often overlooked space of not quite a young mum, but not quite anything else either. At her core, Chloe believes that no act of kindness is ever wasted, and that showing up for people, consistently and without judgement, matters. Insta: theafterbirthclub www.mothersuncovered.com

Carrying Grief: Romy's story

Re-releasing this episode from April 2023. Maggie interviews Ali Norell, who tragically lost her baby daughter Romy at 4 months old due to a rare condition. Even though Romy's life was short, she changed Ali's life (she believes for the better) and led to the work she does now. #alinorell #grief #maggiegordonwalker