PINE BLUFF, Ark. (KATV) — With “USA” throughout her chest and a aircraft ticket to Kuala Lumpur developing quick, Pine Bluff’s Dr. Tamara P. Glover is packing greater than pageant robes for Malaysia, she’s taking a message for mothers all over the place.

Glover, who holds the title of Mrs. USA Worldwide World, mentioned it’s “actually an honor and a privilege” to signify the USA in Kuala Lumpur “inside lower than per week.”

“I’ll be carrying not solely simply, the crown is greater, it’s larger than the crown,” Glover mentioned. “I’ve my household, my group, and simply the nation and talking for ladies throughout, and I’m simply enthusiastic about that.”

Glover has spent the previous 12 months touring and advocating for maternal well being, with a concentrate on postpartum melancholy — a trigger she mentioned grew to become private after the beginning of her second son in 2023.

“So, in 2023, after giving beginning to my second son, Samson, I skilled postpartum melancholy, and I discovered myself being in a extremely darkish room, not recognizing the girl staring again at me within the mirror,” Glover mentioned.

A licensed medical social employee, Glover mentioned the expertise flipped her perspective from helper to somebody who wanted assist herself.

“For years, I’ve spent years as a licensed medical social employee serving to different individuals, and out of the blue I used to be the girl standing in want of assist,” she mentioned.

She mentioned she needs ladies to grasp postpartum melancholy and psychological well being can have an effect on anybody.

“I need ladies to see that psychological well being is not any respecter of individuals, place, your socioeconomic standing, your race, your coloration, your creed, however it might probably have an effect on anyone,” Glover mentioned.

Glover mentioned her advocacy is now tied to what she calls the “YES, MAAM!” Motion, which she described as “YES MAAM!: Empowering Moms and Elevating Psychological Well being.”

“The sweetness is, is that I need extra ladies to start out saying sure to themselves, sure to their psychological well being, sure to therapeutic, sure to proudly owning who you’re, however most significantly, sure to taking good care of your self, rediscovering the girl inside the mother is so necessary to me,” she mentioned.

She additionally emphasised the position of help programs, crediting her husband, Leonardo, and her mom for serving to her proceed her work.

“I’ll be trustworthy, with out my husband Leonardo and my mom beside me, there may be completely no method I’d be capable to do what I’m doing now,” Glover mentioned. “What I discovered is that it’s an indication of power when you’ll be able to elevate your hand and say, ‘Hey, I would like some assist’.”

Wanting past pageantry, Glover mentioned she hopes her legacy is rooted in impression, not only a title.

“Most significantly, that I used to be a girl who didn’t hand over on herself,” she mentioned. “The purpose is, the crown opens the door, however for me, it’s the impression and being a change agent and having the ability to assist ladies alongside this journey.”

As she prepares to go to Malaysia, Glover mentioned supporters can take part in reside voting by her social media accounts.

“So proper now could be reside voting is reside proper now on my social media,” she mentioned. “You possibly can observe me @dr.tamarapglover, and that’s on all shops: Instagram, TikTok, Fb.”

She additionally introduced a group send-off deliberate in Pine Bluff.

“And so I’m really having a send-off,” Glover mentioned. “And it’s going to be Thursday, this Thursday at 5:30 on the Magnolia Meals Mart, which is a brand new native restaurant or a number of eating places within the Pine Bluff group.”