Dr. Clodagh Campbell on adoption, postpartum depression and attachment

Psychologist, author and mum of three Dr. Clodagh Campbell joins Dominique this week, for one of the most personal conversations of the season.

Dominique and Clodagh share powerful parallels in their lives. Both are adopted. Both lost their beloved fathers too early.

Together they explore how adoption can shape identity across a lifetime and why questions around belonging often become louder once we become parents ourselves.

Clodagh also opens up about her experience with postnatal depression. As a psychologist, she didn’t initially recognise the signs in herself. It arrived slowly and quietly, and by the time she realised what was happening she was already struggling.

The conversation also explores the nervous system, maternal exhaustion, the invisible cognitive load many parents carry and why small moments of awareness can make such a difference in our busy lives.

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