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Jen Schwartz, mental health advocate and CEO of Motherhood Understood, first experienced perinatal depression a day after giving birth. “The biggest red flag was that I was having scary thoughts about wanting to get hurt or sick so I could go back to the hospital and not have to take care of my baby,” she says. “I had no interest in my son. I thought I had made a huge mistake becoming a mother and I couldn’t understand why I was failing at something that I believed was supposed to come naturally and that all other women were so good at.”
Fiona Weaver ditching a life in law to begin Wild Island Women Tasmanian adventure community
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Fiona Weaver s love of nature led her to set up a nature tourism business.
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While many people in their early 20s are taking their first steps into a career, Fiona Weaver realised she did not want to climb up the corporate ladder she wanted to climb off it.
Ms Weaver started her career working as a legal secretary at a firm in Sydney but now spends her days on Tasmania s rivers and mountains. At 22, I was just very unhappy, really not myself and I remember sitting in my beautiful office which overlooked the Blue Mountains, I was on the 17th floor … right in the middle of the CBD, she said.