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Podcast: Book Friends Forever
Episode: Missing Me by Ayana Lage Read by Heni Zoutomou
Description: A stunning memoir by a writer and mental health advocate about motherhood, postpartum mental health, and finding ground when you lose all control.
When writer and blogger Ayana Lage became pregnant, she prepared as any parent would: voraciously researching, Redditing, preparing for anything. And having experienced a previous miscarriage, she braced herself for the worst. But days after giving birth, Ayana’s sense of control began to break when God started speaking to her. After growing up Pentecostal and longing to hear from God, she heard him audibly for the first time—and often. God told her that she had been...