Mended Roses

The bond that broke was not between mother and child. It was between my body and my mind. When trauma hits, your mind leaves your body to survive. That is what happens in the OR. That is what kept happening every day after. Eventually, the disconnection becomes the depression.

In Episode 2 of Mended Roses, I share the moment postpartum depression nearly broke me. Standing in my living room, unwashed for days, both babies crying, I thought I was the problem. My partner said it was normal. But I knew something was deeply wrong. That is when I picked up a bike. And it saved my life. On that first ride, something shifted. At every intersection, I had to choose. Left or righ...

Welcome to Mended Roses. I am Kokila Rajendran. This is my first episode. I call it The Girl Who Learned to Disappear. I start with a question I asked last week. If you were not afraid of letting anyone down, what would you want. Many people sat with a blank page. They could not remember what wanting feels like. I know that feeling. Today I share my story. It is about a little girl who learned ear...

Mended Roses is for women who said yes when their body screamed no. We expose the scripts keeping you small, dismantle the Good Girl programming, and give you frameworks to reclaim autonomy. Feminism meets strategy meets healing. Your compliance was engineered. Your freedom is a choice.