Harriet Walker

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I have been a volunteer at Home Start Stroud and Gloucester for the last 23 years and a Trustee for the last 7. I am currently acting Chair. I believe passionately in the work that we do as a charity and love my volunteer roles.

This testamonial from one of my first familys shows how valuable the work we do can be to a family.

I wanted to share this picture as it was this moment where I was talking to National Press about my post natal depression and experience of navigating motherhood. It was this moment where I genuinely felt like I had come out of what I can only describe as one of the darkest times in my life. I felt like a mother properly for the first time and I wouldn’t have reached this stage without the help of Harriet and Homestart.

Harriet was genuinely the person that saved me, helped me navigate postnatal depression, navigate motherhood and got me out of the house when I felt I would never leave the house again.

I was so lost, I had gone from a confident person in pregnancy to this vacant lost person, at the time when it was “meant” to be wonderful.

I was scared at first at the prospect of the visits, scared of being judged, I didn’t know what to expect but from the moment Harriet visited me I knew she was going to help me. She was my fairy godmother that’s for sure!!

Each visit, we reached a different milestone, building my confidence along the way and I started to learn and embrace motherhood and I am forever grateful I was lucky enough to be saved by Harriet and Homestart.

I wouldn’t be the mother I am today without you.

Emily x

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