Mom Beats Postpartum Depression, Now Helps Others Heal

When Ishu Gupta's twins were born in 2017 after 650 IVF injections, she felt nothing. Everyone around her celebrated, but the 40-year-old mother couldn't connect to the joy she'd imagined for years.

Six hours after her C-section, when her mother suggested breastfeeding, Ishu just wanted to sleep. "I was not feeling like breastfeeding my own twins," she recalls, afraid to share these feelings with anyone, even her husband.

For two years, Ishu lived in emotional fog, unable to find the maternal connection she desperately wanted. She didn't yet recognize she was experiencing postpartum depression.

Her mother's simple advice became the turning point: "You have to get up." Despite intense physical pain, Ishu started with household chores, then added simple home workouts.

During the pandemic, Instagram yoga posts caught her attention. She began practicing while her kids played nearby, and one day, something shifted.

Her twins started joining her on the mat. "Tears started rolling out of my eyes," Ishu remembers. "For the first time in two years, I felt a connection with them."

That moment sparked her healing journey. By 2021, she'd become an international yoga teacher, then trained as a Reiki master, chakra healer, and life coach.

When Ishu shared her story online, hundreds of parents responded with similar experiences. "I thought I was the only one," she says. "Then I realized so many parents were silently carrying the same guilt."

Her biggest discovery? "I wasn't connected to myself, so how could I have felt connected to my children?"

Why This Inspires

Ishu's insight challenges how we think about postpartum depression. She discovered that healing her relationship with herself unlocked her ability to connect with her children and others.

Even after losing her husband in 2024, Ishu chose to keep moving forward. She returned to her corporate job three days later and resumed helping others through social media just 13 days after his death.

Today, she balances corporate work with yoga sessions, helping parents who feel the same disconnect she once experienced. Her mission: creating what she calls "a therapy-free world" by teaching people to reconnect with themselves first.

Ishu's twins now practice yoga alongside her, a living reminder that connection can be found again, even after the darkest times.