Borderline Personality Disorder, Motherhood, and Ending the Stigma, with Becca Ferry

Hello and welcome to Rad Mom Radio – a podcast dedicated to moms and all their favorite topics. My name’s Natalie, and I’m your host.

My guest this week is Becca Ferry. Becca is a wife, a mom, a social media influencer, and the owner of Bettering Society where she creates and sells mental health apparel. You can find Becca on Instagram @betteringbecca and @shopbetteringsociety.

I discovered Becca on Instagram - she was talking about her experience with borderline personality disorder. And I was just so impressed with her willingness to be vulnerable about something so sensitive online. I think there is a huge stigma against moms that struggle with mental health issues and because of that stigma a lot of moms won’t talk about their struggles openly. It feels risky. So to see someone talking about it so openly really stood out to me. So I sent Becca a message inviting her to come on as a guest and I’m so glad she said yes because this was such an awesome conversation. 

I can’t say enough good things about Becca, she is sweet, honest, warm, genuine, brave, and I think that the work she’s doing is remarkable. So I feel very honored that I got to hang out and chat with her. In this episode we talked about Becca’s experience with her mental health, borderline personality – what it is and how it has impacted her life. We talked about mental health stigma against mothers, we talked about normalizing open discussions about the darker aspects of mental health, and we talked about what it’s like to talk about maternal mental health online.

Thank you for listening!