Motherhood
The beautiful, exhausting, complicated reality of raising children and becoming a mother.
Brooke Andersen
Motherhood.
Womanhood.
And the stories we don't talk about enough.
Brooke Andersen is a mother, author, and advocate sharing an honest perspective on motherhood, postpartum mental health, chronic illness, faith, family, and finding hope in life's hardest seasons.
Featured & Heard On
The Oprah PodcastKSLBirth Boot CampSoul Soldier SpeaksLiving Beyond the Shadow of DoubtOne True Jesus
Featured Conversation
Brooke Andersen on The Oprah Podcast
The Lindsay Clancy Case: Understanding Postpartum Psychosis
Hosted by Oprah Winfrey
Brooke and her husband Trevor join Oprah Winfrey for a national conversation about postpartum psychosis, sharing their family's firsthand experience with the illness and the role recognition, support, and intervention can play in changing outcomes.
Watch the ConversationAbout Brooke
A story I never expected to tell.
I'm Brooke — a wife, mother of four, author, and someone whose life has taken more unexpected turns than I ever could have imagined.
Motherhood brought some of the greatest joy of my life. It also brought me face-to-face with postpartum psychosis, serious illness, questions of faith, and seasons that changed our family forever.
For years, I've shared pieces of that story because I learned how powerful it can be when someone is willing to talk honestly about the things we're often afraid to say out loud.
This isn't a story about having everything figured out. It's about motherhood, survival, faith, family, and finding hope when life looks nothing like you thought it would.
The Conversations
The things worth talking about.
Some of the most important parts of motherhood and womanhood are also the things we have the hardest time talking about.
Postpartum & Maternal Mental Health
An honest conversation about postpartum psychosis, mental health, stigma, asking for help, and what these experiences can look like inside a family.
Chronic Illness
What happens when your body changes your plans — and how illness reshapes motherhood, marriage, identity, and everyday life.
Faith
Questions, change, uncertainty, and learning what faith looks like after life challenges what you thought you knew.
Marriage & Family
Walking through extraordinary circumstances together while still navigating ordinary family life.
Hope After Hard Seasons
Finding hope without pretending the hard things didn't happen — and learning how to build a life beyond what you survived.
The Book
Through Fire and Grace
A story of walking through the fire — and discovering what remained.
Through Fire and Grace is Brooke's deeply personal story of motherhood, mental illness, chronic illness, marriage, faith, identity, and the difficult work of finding a way forward when life looks nothing like you expected.
Explore the Book“I’ve survived.
I’m not healed but I’m here.”
— Brooke Andersen, personal journal
Book Reviews
More reader reviews“It was so good to not feel alone, to see that others too have been where I've been.”
Media & Interviews
Let's have a conversation that matters.
Brooke is available for select podcast, television, editorial, speaking, and media opportunities centered around motherhood, maternal mental health, chronic illness, faith, family, and hope.