Mom and Mind | Pregnancy and Postpartum Depression & Anxiety

My Postpartum Story - Redux We are taking a short break from new episodes, 'cause well, this mama's taking a vacation! We won't leave you with no episodes though! We've picked a couple of the most popular episodes to Re-air over the break. Here is an Encore of Episode #1, where I share my story of Postpartum Depression, Postpartum Anxiety, Postpartum ODC and well, Postpartum Rage. So many things w...

Tanya Newbould - Producer of When The Bough Breaks and Personal Story of Postpartum Depression  *sensitive content at 7:00 & 20:50* Tanya shares her personal journey with Postpartum Depression and how her experience sparked the beginning of the When The Bough Breaks - A Documentary about Postpartum Depression. Narrated and Executive Produced by Brook Shields, this documentary takes a close look at...

Coretta Rae Daniel – Postpartum Depression & Anxiety, Personal Story and helping women of color *Sensitive Content, 17:45-20:45* Coretta shares her personal story of postpartum depression, how it impacted her first months of motherhood. As she was coming out of the heaviness of PPD, she realized that the women of color in her community in Ohio did not have enough resources. So, she went to work. Y...

Ingrid Esparza - Personal story of Postpartum Anxiety   Ingrid tells us about her experience after birth and in the early months of life with her new son. Again, we get to hear the powerful ways in which a mother copes and fights to get through medical complications, breastfeeding challenges and the anxiety that came with it all. She tells us about:   - How a postpartum hemorrhage affected her and...

Lindsay Marie Gibson We discuss some topics that may be sensitive for some listeners. Many mothers experience a trauma in life prior to having children. More specifically a sexual trauma. These experiences can sometimes come up and affect us in a way that we did not expect when we have kids. Lindsay discusses her journey to find Joy after trauma. We talk about her inspirational path to healing and...

Dr. Rebecca Moore - Understanding Birth Trauma  We are discussing traumatic birth experience and it's impacts. Did you know that someone could feel traumatized by their experience and you can't tell by looking at them? Yep, sometimes a traumatic experience can happen that only the birthing mother is aware of. Sometimes it's very clear that there is a trauma. Dr. Moore talks about -the Medical syst...

Perinatal Mental Health Alliance for Women of Color – PMHAWOC Here are three powerhouse women who have come together to co-found a beautiful and needed organization focusing on perinatal mental health for women of color. This is what closing the gaps and supporting women of color, in a BIG way, looks like. Divya Kumar, Desiree Israel and Jabina Coleman are doing outstanding work. Please listen in,...

Dr. Kat - Soapbox edition, sounding off! Hey everyone! It’s just me in this episode, to bring you a special soapbox edition of Mom & Mind. Basically, there are some things that get me really heated about new parenthood, pressures on new moms and dads and the way that we look at the transition to becoming a parent. I have a few choice thoughts…I’m sure you can relate…and I’m sure I won’t cover ALL...

Elyse Springer, MFT Elyse shares vital info and awareness in this focused conversation on LGBTQ perinatal mental health. There are many many facets to cover, so in this chat, we start with some basics and dig a little deeper into these aspects:  -Elyse talks with us about LGBTQ fundamentals and how people identify themselves, sexuality, gender and attraction. -Perinatal mental health is not just "...

Dr. Christine White, ND - Fascinating Discussion about Whole-Person perinatal wellness. What is Naturopathic Medicine and how can it help you? Dr. White tells us how she supports whole-person wellness. We discuss the ways in which pregnant or postpartum mothers can be supported by this type of care, specifically when dealing with postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety and postpartum psychosis....

Graeme Seabrook, The Postpartum Mama, shares her personal story through a very difficult postpartum depression and how it shaped the work that she does to support moms now. She talks about real self care - not just nice things to do for yourself, but how to change things in your life to keep yourself on the priority list. She is passionate, engaged and upbeat, I'm sure you'll enjoy our chat! Liste...

Raul Martinez - Postpartum Suicide- The loss of a wife and mother. After losing his wife, Kelly, Raul became a powerful advocate for moms and families. He shares about Kelly, his message to mothers and partners and the work that he does now to advocate for better care of perinatal mothers and families. We talk about how postpartum mood changes impacted his wife and the how knowing what he knows no...

EPISODE 50! Jane Honikman - Mother of Maternal Mental Health 2 OMG's at once, Jane Honikman is on with us and we are at Episode 50! I'm honored to bring you this weeks episode with Jane, she is the founder of Postpartum Support International which is having it's 30 year anniversary AND the co-founder of Postpartum Education for Parents (PEP) coming up on it's 40 year anniversary this June! Most re...

Special Episode: MMH Awareness Week! Just me, chatting with you! Hey everyone, welcome to maternal mental health week! I wanted to come in and have a chat with you guys about all of the awesomeness happening to raise awareness during the month of May and also touch base about why we need this awareness. The Mom & Mind podcast goal is first and foremost to get information and awareness of maternal...

Dr. Ivy Love Margulies - Perinatal loss expert & Death Midwife Going through a loss of a child during pregnancy, birth or postpartum can be devastating to a family. It's also hard to know what to do...how to even make decision moving forward. Psychlogist, Dr. Ivy Love Margulies shares her expertise in perinatal mental health, reproductive mental health, perinatal loss and her unique work as a deat...

Diana Collins- Personal Struggle and Loss of a friend *Sensitive Content* Please be aware that our discussion may be overwhelming for some people. Resources for support listed below. We discuss Diana's friend who died from postpartum depression suicide. Diana also shares some of her personal struggle with depression and her suicide attempts. We are going to learn about how her personal story, losi...

Jamie Zahlaway Belsito Do you ever wonder who is doing any thing about maternal mental health? LOTS OF PEOPLE! Listen in to Jamie to find out what is being done and about the rockstars who are at the forefront. Jamie is the Director of Advocacy for the National Coalition for Maternal Mental Health. She tells us about the national legislation that is up regarding PPD and why it's important. “Bringi...

LaShonta Edwards - A Mothers Sanctuary LaShonta is a doula, advocate, author of A Dark Secret, founder and CEO of A Mothers Sanctuary. She shares with us the amazing work and model program that she is doing in Huston, Texas to help mothers and families in the community. What is so great about her organization is that it both offers workshops for moms to learn about postpartum depression and postpa...

Elly Taylor - Becoming Us Now there IS a training manual for becoming a family! We talk in depth about the stages and life changes that couples go through when they bring a baby into the relationship. It’s hard for a lot of expecting parents to know what they DON’T know. She says that we can prepare parents for the unknown and she has figured out how. Did you know that the transition to parenthood...

Jessica Diggs - Birth Disparities  Thank you Jessica for being on with us to talk about this, vital to understand and very distressing reality for pregnant and postpartum mothers. We have to be doing better by mothers. Learning from Jessica in this episode is an important part in doing better, being more aware and taking intentional steps to be more supportive to mothers. We talk about what birth...

Parijat Deshpande, High Risk Pregnancy - How to talk with your providers. In this episode, we discuss how we don't know what we don't know...That it's okay and necessary to ask questions, talk with providers, ask for needs to be met...why it's okay and important to ask questions...who can be an ally in the process...what kinds of questions can a mom be thinking about? We are talking about how comm...

Kiley Hanish - Return to Zero It's hard to imaging being able to get through the loss of a baby during pregnancy. Kiley shares with us some of her story and how her experience shaped what she does now to help other mothers who have lost a child. Kiley's talks about how the stillbirth of her son affected her, the retreat for grieving mothers and the film "Return To Zero" that she and her husband cr...

Karen Kleiman, MSW, LCSW Oh, this is such a great chat! We talk about helping pregnant and postpartum mothers, Karen's scope of work, training providers so they can really help these moms and of course, her latest book "The Art of Holding in Therapy: An Essential Intervention for Postpartum Depression and Anxiety". Great stuff! Karen Kleiman, MSW, LCSW, is Founder and Executive Director of The Pos...

Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody Dispelling the myths of medication use in pregnancy and postpartum We are talking with Expert Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody about psychiatric medication during pregnancy and postpartum. We will go over some of the fundamental things it’s important to know about med use, risks to mother or baby for treated AND untreated illness, clear up some of the misconceptions of medicat...

Onyedikachi Ekwerike I’m honored and excited to have Onyedikachi Ekwerike, speaking with us from Nigeria about maternal mental health for African mothers. He discusses some of the culture specific challenges for African mothers, how maternal mental health has been historically understood, stigma around maternal mental health issues, the work being done in Nigeria and throughout Africa to spread aw...