Ep 31: The Women Who Kept Me Alive

Episode Description

I made four cups of tea a day and drank none of them. I typed "I'm not doing great" and deleted it. I sat on the kitchen floor and realised I hadn't said a full sentence out loud all day.

Then I walked into a room with plastic chairs and bad lighting. And someone said, "I cried in the shower because I dropped a spoon." And I thought… oh. It's not just me.

This one's for the women who texted back fast. Who left coffee on my doorstep. Who sat in the mess with me and didn't try to fix it.

This is my thank you.

Episode Summary

The 1am group chat — a voice note, a laugh in the dark, and why this episode exists
The lonely newborn days — cold cups of tea, deleted texts, and not saying a full sentence out loud all day
The mothers group that nearly didn't happen — plastic chairs, someone crying over a dropped spoon, and the first crack in the mask
How it built slowly — a meme at 3am, a coffee left on the doorstep, no chat, no pressure, just help
What they actually did — clocking the silence, letting me say the ugly stuff, midnight voice notes from the bathroom floor
The night I knew it was more than "nice mums from group" — one honest text, a fast reply, and sitting on the kitchen floor just breathing
What it looks like now — school gates, messy play dates, picking up each other's kids, and tea we might actually finish
Why the tiny stuff matters most — the texts, the coffees, the stupid memes — that's what kept me alive