Serena Williams shares mental health update, says she’s ‘not having a good day’

serena williams Is being honest about my feelings.

“I didn’t have a good day. It’s okay to not have a good day. No one has an easy day. If you don’t have a good day, I’m with you. There’s always tomorrow. Love you,” Williams, 42, via X (formerly Twitter) Tuesday, November 28th.

in a Follow up post toWilliams shared a selfie with her three-month-old daughter, Adira River, which she shared with her husband Alexis Ohanian, snuggled up against her. “This makes me so happy,” she wrote.

This isn’t the first time the tennis legend has opened up about his mental health. In September 2022, Williams and selena gomez as part of the “Lose You to Love Me” singer’s mental health platform Wondermind.

“Mental health, for me, is really learning to shut down,” Williams explains. “You know, I did this a few years ago, before mental health was a topic on everyone’s radar. It was like, ‘Okay, I’m going to shut myself down today.’ “It’s just subconsciously something I’ve always done.”

The seven-time Wimbledon champion, who retires in September 2022, noted that now that she realizes the importance of putting herself first – “especially mentally” – she has “got into a moment of closure” “.

“I have strict boundaries and I won’t let anyone cross them on my time,” she revealed. “It’s too bad because I’m really not doing anything for myself. I’m terrible about it! I say over and over again, ‘I’m working on it!’ “But, more or less, at least prioritize what I need to do, and then when I shut down, I shut down.”

In August 2018, Williams revealed she struggled with “postpartum emotions” after withdrawing from the Rogers Cup due to “personal reasons.” (Williams welcomed daughter Alexis Olympia with Ohanian, 40, in September 2017.)

“The last week has not been easy for me,” she wrote on Instagram at the time. “Not only did I come to terms with some hard personal things, but I just felt scared. On top of that, I felt like I wasn’t a good mother.”

In discussion with Anna Wintour During New York Fashion Week in February 2020, Williams revealed that her definition of a hero has changed since becoming a mother.

“My heroes are moms because women are superheroes,” Williams via time. “Having a baby and then two or three weeks later having to go to work or 9 to 5… I’m lucky enough not to have to do that.”