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9: Maternal Mental Health NOW
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Dr. Caron Post from Maternal Mental Health NOW is with us to discuss how the organization offers training, advocacy and support for mothers and families who are dealing with mental health stress during pregnancy and postpartum and works with L.A. County to support maternal mental health sensitive services.
Please go to www.maternalmentalhealthnow.org to learn more about their ONLINE TRAINING in maternal mental health, the maternal mental health directory and connect with them to learn how to make changes in your county.
Dr. Caron Post received her doctorate in clinical psychology from New York University. She is a clinical psychologist who specializes in maternal mental health, couples therapy, depression and anxiety, perinatal mood disorders, early childhood development and parent -child relationships. She is the former Director of the Clinical Training Program at the Early Childhood Center-Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Program Coordinator of Adult Outpatient Services at Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Centers and since 2009 has been the Executive Director of Maternal Mental Health NOW, formerly known as The Los Angeles County Perinatal Mental Health Task Force. She maintains a private practice in Los Angeles, California.
Topics addressed in this episode: Maternal mental health, online directory, advocacy, integration into medical offices, screening, online training
www.maternalmentalhealthnow.org
Twitter: @MMHealthNow
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MaternalMentalHealthNow/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maternalmentalhealthnow/
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Dr. Caron Post from Maternal Mental Health NOW is with us to discuss how the organization offers training, advocacy and support for mothers and families who are dealing with mental health stress during pregnancy and postpartum and works with L.A. County to support maternal mental health sensitive services.
Please go to www.maternalmentalhealthnow.org to learn more about their ONLINE TRAINING in maternal mental health, the maternal mental health directory and connect with them to learn how to make changes in your county.
Dr. Caron Post received her doctorate in clinical psychology from New York University. She is a clinical psychologist who specializes in maternal mental health, couples therapy, depression and anxiety, perinatal mood disorders, early childhood development and parent -child relationships. She is the former Director of the Clinical Training Program at the Early Childhood Center-Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Program Coordinator of Adult Outpatient Services at Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Centers and since 2009 has been the Executive Director of Maternal Mental Health NOW, formerly known as The Los Angeles County Perinatal Mental Health Task Force. She maintains a private practice in Los Angeles, California.
Topics addressed in this episode: Maternal mental health, online directory, advocacy, integration into medical offices, screening, online training
www.maternalmentalhealthnow.org
Twitter: @MMHealthNow
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MaternalMentalHealthNow/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maternalmentalhealthnow/
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07/25/16 • 33 min
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Today’s episode is packed with helpful information about taking medication during pregnancy and the postpartum period. We’ll also take a closer look at COVID-related issues and the vaccine as they relate to perinatal mental health. Join us to learn more.
Dr. Sarah Oreck is a Columbia University-trained psychiatrist who focuses on women’s mental wellness. In addition to her expertise in general and addiction psychiatry, Dr. Oreck is one of very few doctors with specialized training in reproductive psychiatry. She runs a private practice in which she combines the most up-to-date medical treatments with talk therapy, meditation, and a whole-body complementary approach. Dr. Oreck is passionate about teaching, and she regularly lectures at Cedars Sinai Hospital, UCLA, and The Providence Hospital System, in addition to her media work. She is actively involved in advocacy work and is a member of the Board of Directors of Maternal Mental Health Now.
Show Highlights:
- An overview of the field of reproductive psychiatry--and how it helps people
- The “risk vs. risk” perspective regarding medication and perinatal mental health
- How Sarah talks to people about the risk of anxiety and depression
- Why mental health medications can be safer than untreated mental illness
- The dangers when physicians don’t keep up with new mental health research and literature
- How Sarah works to train and inform physicians about pregnancy and postpartum
- How Sarah’s individual clients benefit from her bilingual abilities due to her Colombian heritage
- The myths of motherhood in the Latin community that only magnify the need for a mental health focus
- Sarah’s observations about the impact of COVID on perinatal mood and anxiety disorders
- What it was like for Sarah to have her first baby during the COVID pandemic
- What we should know about the COVID vaccine regarding pregnancy and breastfeeding mothers
- How the stigmas around anxiety medication discourage people from taking medications that are necessary and life-saving
- What Sarah has seen in people getting the help, support, and connection that they need
Resources:
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Today’s episode is packed with helpful information about taking medication during pregnancy and the postpartum period. We’ll also take a closer look at COVID-related issues and the vaccine as they relate to perinatal mental health. Join us to learn more.
Dr. Sarah Oreck is a Columbia University-trained psychiatrist who focuses on women’s mental wellness. In addition to her expertise in general and addiction psychiatry, Dr. Oreck is one of very few doctors with specialized training in reproductive psychiatry. She runs a private practice in which she combines the most up-to-date medical treatments with talk therapy, meditation, and a whole-body complementary approach. Dr. Oreck is passionate about teaching, and she regularly lectures at Cedars Sinai Hospital, UCLA, and The Providence Hospital System, in addition to her media work. She is actively involved in advocacy work and is a member of the Board of Directors of Maternal Mental Health Now.
Show Highlights:
- An overview of the field of reproductive psychiatry--and how it helps people
- The “risk vs. risk” perspective regarding medication and perinatal mental health
- How Sarah talks to people about the risk of anxiety and depression
- Why mental health medications can be safer than untreated mental illness
- The dangers when physicians don’t keep up with new mental health research and literature
- How Sarah works to train and inform physicians about pregnancy and postpartum
- How Sarah’s individual clients benefit from her bilingual abilities due to her Colombian heritage
- The myths of motherhood in the Latin community that only magnify the need for a mental health focus
- Sarah’s observations about the impact of COVID on perinatal mood and anxiety disorders
- What it was like for Sarah to have her first baby during the COVID pandemic
- What we should know about the COVID vaccine regarding pregnancy and breastfeeding mothers
- How the stigmas around anxiety medication discourage people from taking medications that are necessary and life-saving
- What Sarah has seen in people getting the help, support, and connection that they need
Resources:
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01/25/21 • 50 min
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We continue in the month of May, Mental Health Awareness Month! We always need more awareness and advocacy for mental health in general, but for far too long, maternal mental health has been underrecognized and underdiagnosed. So many people have suffered without good resources and the proper support in place. Today’s guest has vast experience with perinatal mental health, and it allows her to see the long view of how far we’ve come and how far we still need to go. Join us to learn more!
Karen Kleiman is a well-known international maternal mental health expert with over 35 years of experience in the field. She is a strong advocate and the author of several groundbreaking books on postpartum depression and anxiety. Her work has been featured online and in the mental health community for decades. In 1998, Karen founded The Postpartum Stress Center, and in 2022, she founded The Karen Kleiman Training Center, which is dedicated to the advancement of clinical expertise and therapeutic strategies for the treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. All of her advanced trainings are heavily influenced by The Art of Holding Perinatal in DistressTM model of intervention, created by Karen. In this conversation, we take a close look at intrusive thoughts and identify those that are normal and those that need an increased level of intervention. Karen’s latest book is Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts: A Healing Guide to the Secret Fears of New Mothers. Her other books include The Postpartum Partner, What About Us?, This Isn’t What I Expected, The Art of Holding in Therapy, and Dropping the Baby and Other Scary Thoughts.
Show Highlights:
- Why Karen writes books as a unique avenue to empower moms
- How the pandemic doubled and tripled exponentially the anxiety and fears for new moms
- How the “scary thought” range can vary from mild to very awful–and they don’t always come with thoughts of hurting your baby or yourself
- Why postpartum depression doesn’t always feel like symptoms–but like the mom is broken
- How to know if scary thoughts are “too scary” by measuring a mom’s distress:
- How much is it interfering with her ability to get through the day?
- How much is it interfering with who she is and how she functions?
- How women are built to function well with very high levels of distress
- Why Karen hopes her book can help moms ask for help when they need it
- What the statistics show around intrusive thoughts about harm to a mother’s baby
- How every new mom experiences some obsessions and compulsions around their baby’s safety
- Why the core of Karen’s work has become holding space for the authentic suffering of moms when they think they are “fine”
- Why relationship problems have to be addressed along with postpartum depression and anxiety
- Why connection to a partner is the #1 most important way to help a suffering mom
Resources:
Connect with Karen: Website, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Book: Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts, and LinkedIn
Check out Karen Kleiman’s other books: Website and Amazon
Visit www.postpartum.net for resources and support!
Visit www.postpartum.net/professionals/certificate-trainings/ for information on the grief course.
Visit my website, www.wellmindperinatal.com, for more information, resources, and courses you can take today!
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We continue in the month of May, Mental Health Awareness Month! We always need more awareness and advocacy for mental health in general, but for far too long, maternal mental health has been underrecognized and underdiagnosed. So many people have suffered without good resources and the proper support in place. Today’s guest has vast experience with perinatal mental health, and it allows her to see the long view of how far we’ve come and how far we still need to go. Join us to learn more!
Karen Kleiman is a well-known international maternal mental health expert with over 35 years of experience in the field. She is a strong advocate and the author of several groundbreaking books on postpartum depression and anxiety. Her work has been featured online and in the mental health community for decades. In 1998, Karen founded The Postpartum Stress Center, and in 2022, she founded The Karen Kleiman Training Center, which is dedicated to the advancement of clinical expertise and therapeutic strategies for the treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. All of her advanced trainings are heavily influenced by The Art of Holding Perinatal in DistressTM model of intervention, created by Karen. In this conversation, we take a close look at intrusive thoughts and identify those that are normal and those that need an increased level of intervention. Karen’s latest book is Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts: A Healing Guide to the Secret Fears of New Mothers. Her other books include The Postpartum Partner, What About Us?, This Isn’t What I Expected, The Art of Holding in Therapy, and Dropping the Baby and Other Scary Thoughts.
Show Highlights:
- Why Karen writes books as a unique avenue to empower moms
- How the pandemic doubled and tripled exponentially the anxiety and fears for new moms
- How the “scary thought” range can vary from mild to very awful–and they don’t always come with thoughts of hurting your baby or yourself
- Why postpartum depression doesn’t always feel like symptoms–but like the mom is broken
- How to know if scary thoughts are “too scary” by measuring a mom’s distress:
- How much is it interfering with her ability to get through the day?
- How much is it interfering with who she is and how she functions?
- How women are built to function well with very high levels of distress
- Why Karen hopes her book can help moms ask for help when they need it
- What the statistics show around intrusive thoughts about harm to a mother’s baby
- How every new mom experiences some obsessions and compulsions around their baby’s safety
- Why the core of Karen’s work has become holding space for the authentic suffering of moms when they think they are “fine”
- Why relationship problems have to be addressed along with postpartum depression and anxiety
- Why connection to a partner is the #1 most important way to help a suffering mom
Resources:
Connect with Karen: Website, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Book: Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts, and LinkedIn
Check out Karen Kleiman’s other books: Website and Amazon
Visit www.postpartum.net for resources and support!
Visit www.postpartum.net/professionals/certificate-trainings/ for information on the grief course.
Visit my website, www.wellmindperinatal.com, for more information, resources, and courses you can take today!
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05/08/23 • 41 min
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There are many questions and much misinformation about treatment options and medications for maternal mental health conditions (MMHCs). The key to having more awareness and understanding is to get correct information from qualified experts. Only when parents are educated and informed can they make the best decisions about their care! Today’s guest has valuable information to share to help us all become more knowledgeable. Join us to learn more!
Dr. Liz Cox is a reproductive psychiatrist in private practice based in Raleigh, North Carolina. She has been in practice for over ten years, previously serving as the Medical Director for UNC Women’s Mood Disorders at Wake Med North in Raleigh and as Residency Education Director in Women’s Mood Disorders at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Department of Psychiatry, where she is currently an adjunct faculty member. Dr. Cox has authored numerous scholarly publications, including textbooks, about the treatment of MMHCs, and she is passionate about decreasing the stigma of MMHCs, increasing awareness, and advocating for appropriate treatments.
Show Highlights:
- How Dr. Cox came into the specialty of reproductive psychiatry
- Why many medical students aren’t getting much training and exposure to the treatment of women’s mood disorders
- What Dr. Cox is seeing in her work and research regarding the prevalence of perinatal depression (50-70% of women are undiagnosed!)
- Why Dr. Cox is passionate about treating the full person and the whole family
- How a treatment plan should prioritize self-care, sleep, movement, good nutrition, therapy, and appropriate medications
- Why there is such misunderstanding about medications for MMHCs
- The risks of untreated symptoms for mothers and babies
- How medications can help alleviate anxiety, shame, and stigma
- Why a reproductive psychiatry specialist can be helpful
- Dr. Cox shares her personal birth experience and why she chose to ask for medication
- What to expect in a consultation with a reproductive psychiatrist
- What Dr. Cox wants listeners to know: “MMHCs are treatable conditions. No one should suffer needlessly or be shamed and stigmatized for asking for help.”
Resources:
Connect with Dr. Liz Cox: Website and Instagram
Visit www.postpartum.net for resources and support!
Visit www.postpartum.net/professionals/certificate-trainings/ for information on the grief course.
Visit my website, www.wellmindperinatal.com, for more information, resources, and courses you can take today!
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
There are many questions and much misinformation about treatment options and medications for maternal mental health conditions (MMHCs). The key to having more awareness and understanding is to get correct information from qualified experts. Only when parents are educated and informed can they make the best decisions about their care! Today’s guest has valuable information to share to help us all become more knowledgeable. Join us to learn more!
Dr. Liz Cox is a reproductive psychiatrist in private practice based in Raleigh, North Carolina. She has been in practice for over ten years, previously serving as the Medical Director for UNC Women’s Mood Disorders at Wake Med North in Raleigh and as Residency Education Director in Women’s Mood Disorders at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Department of Psychiatry, where she is currently an adjunct faculty member. Dr. Cox has authored numerous scholarly publications, including textbooks, about the treatment of MMHCs, and she is passionate about decreasing the stigma of MMHCs, increasing awareness, and advocating for appropriate treatments.
Show Highlights:
- How Dr. Cox came into the specialty of reproductive psychiatry
- Why many medical students aren’t getting much training and exposure to the treatment of women’s mood disorders
- What Dr. Cox is seeing in her work and research regarding the prevalence of perinatal depression (50-70% of women are undiagnosed!)
- Why Dr. Cox is passionate about treating the full person and the whole family
- How a treatment plan should prioritize self-care, sleep, movement, good nutrition, therapy, and appropriate medications
- Why there is such misunderstanding about medications for MMHCs
- The risks of untreated symptoms for mothers and babies
- How medications can help alleviate anxiety, shame, and stigma
- Why a reproductive psychiatry specialist can be helpful
- Dr. Cox shares her personal birth experience and why she chose to ask for medication
- What to expect in a consultation with a reproductive psychiatrist
- What Dr. Cox wants listeners to know: “MMHCs are treatable conditions. No one should suffer needlessly or be shamed and stigmatized for asking for help.”
Resources:
Connect with Dr. Liz Cox: Website and Instagram
Visit www.postpartum.net for resources and support!
Visit www.postpartum.net/professionals/certificate-trainings/ for information on the grief course.
Visit my website, www.wellmindperinatal.com, for more information, resources, and courses you can take today!
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
01/22/24 • 42 min
108: Hyperemesis Gravidarum and Therapeutic Termination Loss with Kaleigh Mancha, MFTI, Doula, Yogi
Mom and Mind
We are all familiar with morning sickness that is a common part of pregnancy, but have you heard of hyperemesis gravidarum (HG)? It is a very significant medical issue that is very different from “normal” morning sickness, yet it’s been minimized even in the medical community, and the expectant mothers who suffer from this condition have not been treated with the care and respect that they deserve. Knowledge is power, so I hope with today’s show comes the education to help people empower themselves in this extreme condition that affects 1-2 out of 100 pregnancies.
Kaleigh Mancha is a licensed mental health therapist, certified full spectrum doula, body positive yoga teacher, and mother. She runs her business, K.a.y. & M.e., offering various wellness services in the Las Vegas Valley. Advocating for underserved and underrepresented populations has been a lifelong passion of hers and is what brought her into the mental health field ten years ago. She has also been heavily involved in advocating for equitable access to education. Her practice specialties include trauma, anxiety, life transitions, and concerns related to reproductive justice, pregnancy, postpartum, and parenthood. As a body positive yoga teacher, she believes that all bodies, abilities, and experience levels are welcome on the mat, and her goal is to reach people who, like her, didn’t grow up in spaces where wellness was a familiar experience. Kaleigh lives by the motto that “Wellness is a necessity, not a luxury.” She believes all people deserve better access to resources and the knowledge to help them live their best lives. She’s here to share her personal story about HG and how this condition has affected her life in many ways.
Show Highlights:
- Ten years ago, she was pregnant with her daughter, extremely sick beyond what is “normal,” but filled with gratitude because a prior surgery had jeopardized her fertility
- At 8 weeks pregnant, her doctor downplayed her nausea and sickness, but she became dehydrated and was diagnosed with HG
- From 8 weeks to 8 months, she was severely sick, but it went away immediately at the birth of her daughter
- As she planned for a 2nd child, she prepared her partner for the idea of more extreme sickness
- She quickly became pregnant in December 2017, felt symptoms right away, but didn’t think it would be a big deal
- At 5 weeks along, her partner was overwhelmed and decided not to continue to be a part of the journey
- How she dealt with full-time work as a yogi, therapist, and doula while pregnant and so sick
- Planning for a home birth with a midwife, but was hospitalized again with dehydration; she then tried acupuncture and CBD oil and was hospitalized again
- Symptoms and facts about HG: Affects less than 2% of pregnancies and is characterized by intense nausea and vomiting (10-20 times/day); can lead to severe dehydration, organ failure, and extreme weight loss. It can vary in severity, can last the entire pregnancy, and is thought to be genetic.
- The impact on Kaleigh was hopelessness and isolation
- How her doula, Christina Hernandez, helped her formulate a plan
- Trying a couple of different medications, which don’t really treat HG well. One was a mixture of B6 and Unisom (a sleep medication)
- How she had to move in with her parents so they could help care for her and her daughter, close her practice, and cancel her doula clients
- How the illness left immediately and she felt like herself again, but then she had to deal with the grief and loss. She took 3 weeks for self-care and healing
- Her recommitment to her patients, to use her experience to become a better doula to help others who don’t have the same support that she did. She now offers free help for those suffering from HG.
Resources:
Find Kaleigh on Facebook: Kay and Me Doula and Wellness Services
Visit her website: www.kayandme.com
Find Kaleigh on Instagram: @kaym86
On Facebook, find HG Moms
For more info, visit www.hyperemesis.orgI
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We are all familiar with morning sickness that is a common part of pregnancy, but have you heard of hyperemesis gravidarum (HG)? It is a very significant medical issue that is very different from “normal” morning sickness, yet it’s been minimized even in the medical community, and the expectant mothers who suffer from this condition have not been treated with the care and respect that they deserve. Knowledge is power, so I hope with today’s show comes the education to help people empower themselves in this extreme condition that affects 1-2 out of 100 pregnancies.
Kaleigh Mancha is a licensed mental health therapist, certified full spectrum doula, body positive yoga teacher, and mother. She runs her business, K.a.y. & M.e., offering various wellness services in the Las Vegas Valley. Advocating for underserved and underrepresented populations has been a lifelong passion of hers and is what brought her into the mental health field ten years ago. She has also been heavily involved in advocating for equitable access to education. Her practice specialties include trauma, anxiety, life transitions, and concerns related to reproductive justice, pregnancy, postpartum, and parenthood. As a body positive yoga teacher, she believes that all bodies, abilities, and experience levels are welcome on the mat, and her goal is to reach people who, like her, didn’t grow up in spaces where wellness was a familiar experience. Kaleigh lives by the motto that “Wellness is a necessity, not a luxury.” She believes all people deserve better access to resources and the knowledge to help them live their best lives. She’s here to share her personal story about HG and how this condition has affected her life in many ways.
Show Highlights:
- Ten years ago, she was pregnant with her daughter, extremely sick beyond what is “normal,” but filled with gratitude because a prior surgery had jeopardized her fertility
- At 8 weeks pregnant, her doctor downplayed her nausea and sickness, but she became dehydrated and was diagnosed with HG
- From 8 weeks to 8 months, she was severely sick, but it went away immediately at the birth of her daughter
- As she planned for a 2nd child, she prepared her partner for the idea of more extreme sickness
- She quickly became pregnant in December 2017, felt symptoms right away, but didn’t think it would be a big deal
- At 5 weeks along, her partner was overwhelmed and decided not to continue to be a part of the journey
- How she dealt with full-time work as a yogi, therapist, and doula while pregnant and so sick
- Planning for a home birth with a midwife, but was hospitalized again with dehydration; she then tried acupuncture and CBD oil and was hospitalized again
- Symptoms and facts about HG: Affects less than 2% of pregnancies and is characterized by intense nausea and vomiting (10-20 times/day); can lead to severe dehydration, organ failure, and extreme weight loss. It can vary in severity, can last the entire pregnancy, and is thought to be genetic.
- The impact on Kaleigh was hopelessness and isolation
- How her doula, Christina Hernandez, helped her formulate a plan
- Trying a couple of different medications, which don’t really treat HG well. One was a mixture of B6 and Unisom (a sleep medication)
- How she had to move in with her parents so they could help care for her and her daughter, close her practice, and cancel her doula clients
- How the illness left immediately and she felt like herself again, but then she had to deal with the grief and loss. She took 3 weeks for self-care and healing
- Her recommitment to her patients, to use her experience to become a better doula to help others who don’t have the same support that she did. She now offers free help for those suffering from HG.
Resources:
Find Kaleigh on Facebook: Kay and Me Doula and Wellness Services
Visit her website: www.kayandme.com
Find Kaleigh on Instagram: @kaym86
On Facebook, find HG Moms
For more info, visit www.hyperemesis.orgI
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07/16/18 • 57 min
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 Perinatal Mental Health, with stories from mothers, partners, advocates and experts. The film features personal stories of postpartum depression from producers Lindsay Gerszt and Ms. Newbould, Carnie Wilson, Peggy Tanous, Aarti Sequeira and many other courageous women and partners.
Tanya tells us:
-About her personal experience of pregnancy, birth and postpartum
-How she came to know that she had postpartum depression and antenatal depression.
-How she coped and what helped her to recover
-What it was like to do the documentary after her own experience
This documentary is in over 70 countries in 5 different languages! You can find the film on iTunes, Netflix or even bring it to your community through a screening. Check out the links below and be sure to connect with them!
Connect with Tanya
Instagram-tanya4re
Twitter-@tanyanewbould
FB-Tanya J. Newbould
Find the Film
FB : https://www.facebook.com/whentheboughbreaksdoc/
iTunes : https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/when-the-bough-breaks/id1210503223
Netflix : https://www.netflix.com/title/80175828
Tanya Newbould
Actress for over 20 years and Producer of When The Bough Breaks, a Point Of View Pictures feature-length documentary about postpartum depression and perinatal mood disorders. Exectutive Produced and Narrated by Brook Shields, Directed and Produced by Jamielyn Lippman, Produced by Lindsay Gerszt and Ms. Newbould. Tanya and Lindsay connected in a common bond from suffering the same symptoms, but finding little to no in formation on the subjects, despite the big impact of Perinatal mood disorders.
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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 Perinatal Mental Health, with stories from mothers, partners, advocates and experts. The film features personal stories of postpartum depression from producers Lindsay Gerszt and Ms. Newbould, Carnie Wilson, Peggy Tanous, Aarti Sequeira and many other courageous women and partners.
Tanya tells us:
-About her personal experience of pregnancy, birth and postpartum
-How she came to know that she had postpartum depression and antenatal depression.
-How she coped and what helped her to recover
-What it was like to do the documentary after her own experience
This documentary is in over 70 countries in 5 different languages! You can find the film on iTunes, Netflix or even bring it to your community through a screening. Check out the links below and be sure to connect with them!
Connect with Tanya
Instagram-tanya4re
Twitter-@tanyanewbould
FB-Tanya J. Newbould
Find the Film
FB : https://www.facebook.com/whentheboughbreaksdoc/
iTunes : https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/when-the-bough-breaks/id1210503223
Netflix : https://www.netflix.com/title/80175828
Tanya Newbould
Actress for over 20 years and Producer of When The Bough Breaks, a Point Of View Pictures feature-length documentary about postpartum depression and perinatal mood disorders. Exectutive Produced and Narrated by Brook Shields, Directed and Produced by Jamielyn Lippman, Produced by Lindsay Gerszt and Ms. Newbould. Tanya and Lindsay connected in a common bond from suffering the same symptoms, but finding little to no in formation on the subjects, despite the big impact of Perinatal mood disorders.
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07/24/17 • 34 min
120: Preeclampsia, NICU and a Healing Journey
Mom and Mind
If you’ve gone through a trying experience and NOT had the support or services that you needed, then you become distinctly passionate about helping others find those services. If those services don’t exist, then you may be determined to help provide for others exactly what YOU needed and didn’t have. This is precisely the story of today’s guest, who turned her lemons into lemonade after her own experiences and lack of support inspired her to fill the need in her area.
Meisha Shockley is the owner and executive director of Shore Grace, a family wellness center providing wrap-around services to support families on the eastern shore of Maryland who are welcoming a new baby to their home. Meisha is a doula, speaker, and coach with a specialty in maternal mental health for women of color, high risk pregnancies, prematurity, and pre-eclampsia awareness. She holds a BA in Rehabilitation Counseling and is currently pursuing her MA in Marriage and Family Counseling with a specialty in Sex Education. It was her own experience with pre-eclampsia and the premature birth of her daughter that led to the opening of Shore Grace.
Show Highlights:
- After college, Meisha worked full-time in case management with moms who just needed support
- When she was 24 weeks pregnant with her second child, she went to a walk-in clinic with a headache and swollen feet, not realizing her blood pressure was dangerously high and she would be admitted to the hospital
- After tests showed pre-eclampsia, she was stabilized and discharged
- She saw her Ob the next day, was readmitted to a different hospital, educated about pre-eclampsia, and put on meds to go home on bed rest
- At 25 weeks, she was told she would have to deliver the baby soon and was put in ICU on bed rest
- At 27 weeks, an ultrasound showed obstructed blood flow to the baby and a C-section was scheduled, but then rushed up as an immediate life or death situation
- When her daughter was born, weighing 1 lb. 6.9 oz., she remembers them saying, “It’s a girl!”
- Why she didn’t want to see her baby because she thought she would be burying this baby soon
- The baby went to NICU and she didn’t see her for two days
- A pivotal moment when her husband said, “Our daughter is in there fighting, and I need you to fight with her.”
- Even though the baby had bleeding on the brain and a hole in her heart, she was not in critical condition and had stabilized
- How Meisha started spending more and more time with the baby
- 70 days in NICU and then the scariest part: bringing her home at 3 lbs.
- With no one to turn to, Meisha battled postpartum depression
- After bringing her daughter home in August, she found out she was pregnant again in November
- As she started worrying and knew she was not ready for another pregnancy, she started seeing a therapist
- As she started journaling and using Facebook as an outlet to share, she developed a following
- She felt frustrated about the lack of education about pre-eclampsia
- How she became interested in becoming a doula, because it is the kind of support that SHE needed
- She started Mothering Mother Postpartum Doula Services, but knew families in her area needed more than just birth support
- Shore Grace Family Wellness was born, providing doulas and counselors whose goal is “to touch families wherever they are in their walk”
- Why Shore Grace builds lifelong relationships with families and not just provides short-term help
- Meisha’s efforts to break the stigma and generational habits with black women about not going to therapy or talking about the hard things
- Why she takes very good care of her mental health and pays attention to her triggers
- How she and her husband teach a Postpartum Recovery and Infant Care class together
Resources:
Find Shore Grace on Instagram and Facebook: @ShoreGraceFam and Shore Grace Fam
Find Meisha on Instagram: @MeishaShockley
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If you’ve gone through a trying experience and NOT had the support or services that you needed, then you become distinctly passionate about helping others find those services. If those services don’t exist, then you may be determined to help provide for others exactly what YOU needed and didn’t have. This is precisely the story of today’s guest, who turned her lemons into lemonade after her own experiences and lack of support inspired her to fill the need in her area.
Meisha Shockley is the owner and executive director of Shore Grace, a family wellness center providing wrap-around services to support families on the eastern shore of Maryland who are welcoming a new baby to their home. Meisha is a doula, speaker, and coach with a specialty in maternal mental health for women of color, high risk pregnancies, prematurity, and pre-eclampsia awareness. She holds a BA in Rehabilitation Counseling and is currently pursuing her MA in Marriage and Family Counseling with a specialty in Sex Education. It was her own experience with pre-eclampsia and the premature birth of her daughter that led to the opening of Shore Grace.
Show Highlights:
- After college, Meisha worked full-time in case management with moms who just needed support
- When she was 24 weeks pregnant with her second child, she went to a walk-in clinic with a headache and swollen feet, not realizing her blood pressure was dangerously high and she would be admitted to the hospital
- After tests showed pre-eclampsia, she was stabilized and discharged
- She saw her Ob the next day, was readmitted to a different hospital, educated about pre-eclampsia, and put on meds to go home on bed rest
- At 25 weeks, she was told she would have to deliver the baby soon and was put in ICU on bed rest
- At 27 weeks, an ultrasound showed obstructed blood flow to the baby and a C-section was scheduled, but then rushed up as an immediate life or death situation
- When her daughter was born, weighing 1 lb. 6.9 oz., she remembers them saying, “It’s a girl!”
- Why she didn’t want to see her baby because she thought she would be burying this baby soon
- The baby went to NICU and she didn’t see her for two days
- A pivotal moment when her husband said, “Our daughter is in there fighting, and I need you to fight with her.”
- Even though the baby had bleeding on the brain and a hole in her heart, she was not in critical condition and had stabilized
- How Meisha started spending more and more time with the baby
- 70 days in NICU and then the scariest part: bringing her home at 3 lbs.
- With no one to turn to, Meisha battled postpartum depression
- After bringing her daughter home in August, she found out she was pregnant again in November
- As she started worrying and knew she was not ready for another pregnancy, she started seeing a therapist
- As she started journaling and using Facebook as an outlet to share, she developed a following
- She felt frustrated about the lack of education about pre-eclampsia
- How she became interested in becoming a doula, because it is the kind of support that SHE needed
- She started Mothering Mother Postpartum Doula Services, but knew families in her area needed more than just birth support
- Shore Grace Family Wellness was born, providing doulas and counselors whose goal is “to touch families wherever they are in their walk”
- Why Shore Grace builds lifelong relationships with families and not just provides short-term help
- Meisha’s efforts to break the stigma and generational habits with black women about not going to therapy or talking about the hard things
- Why she takes very good care of her mental health and pays attention to her triggers
- How she and her husband teach a Postpartum Recovery and Infant Care class together
Resources:
Find Shore Grace on Instagram and Facebook: @ShoreGraceFam and Shore Grace Fam
Find Meisha on Instagram: @MeishaShockley
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10/08/18 • 55 min
16: Postpartum Psychosis - Personal Story
Mom and Mind
Postpartum Psychosis and Depression
Lisa shares her personal story of struggle through Postpartum depression and psychosis. This is very important for us to talk about and I'm so grateful to Lisa for sharing her story with us because this is a very human and real experience that we should know about and have compassionate understanding of.
Postpartum Psychosis is very serious and it is treatable.
Lisa Abramson is and entrepreneur, speaker, executive coach and maternal mental health advocate. She co-founded Mindfulness Based Achievement, the New MBA, which teaches high potential women how to create sustainable success. The New MBA has been taught to thousands of women at Google, Cisco, Salesforce, Mattel, LinkedIn, Microsoft, The Stanford Graduate School of Business and many other organizations.
Abramson has given a TedX talk on her experience with Postpartum Psychosis and Depression and has been featured in Fast Company, sharing 5 Ways To Lean In Without Burning Out. Lisa was recently honored as one of the 100 Most Influential Leaders Empowering Women Worldwide by EBW.
Over 12,000 people have taken part in Mindfulness Based Achievement's free 10 Day Meditation Challenge. Lisa graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN and lives in Menlo Park, CA with her husband and daughter.
Find Lisa's TedX talk on YouTube, "Lets talk about postpartum depression"
Find her on twitter @lisaaabramson
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Postpartum Psychosis and Depression
Lisa shares her personal story of struggle through Postpartum depression and psychosis. This is very important for us to talk about and I'm so grateful to Lisa for sharing her story with us because this is a very human and real experience that we should know about and have compassionate understanding of.
Postpartum Psychosis is very serious and it is treatable.
Lisa Abramson is and entrepreneur, speaker, executive coach and maternal mental health advocate. She co-founded Mindfulness Based Achievement, the New MBA, which teaches high potential women how to create sustainable success. The New MBA has been taught to thousands of women at Google, Cisco, Salesforce, Mattel, LinkedIn, Microsoft, The Stanford Graduate School of Business and many other organizations.
Abramson has given a TedX talk on her experience with Postpartum Psychosis and Depression and has been featured in Fast Company, sharing 5 Ways To Lean In Without Burning Out. Lisa was recently honored as one of the 100 Most Influential Leaders Empowering Women Worldwide by EBW.
Over 12,000 people have taken part in Mindfulness Based Achievement's free 10 Day Meditation Challenge. Lisa graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN and lives in Menlo Park, CA with her husband and daughter.
Find Lisa's TedX talk on YouTube, "Lets talk about postpartum depression"
Find her on twitter @lisaaabramson
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09/12/16 • 37 min
176: Mother Burnout
Mom and Mind
In honoring Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month, today’s topic is mother burnout. It’s something a lot of us moms feel, but we often don’t recognize it until it’s too late. Let’s learn more!
Diana Spalding is Digital Education Editor at Motherly, along with being a certified nurse-midwife, pediatric nurse, and mother of three. She wrote The Motherly Guide to Becoming Mama, which was just released. We’ll discuss what burnout means, why it’s important to pay attention, how to recognize the early signs, and what to do from there.
Show Highlights:
- How Diana became interested in burnout
- The facts: 85% of moms don’t feel supported by society
- The “occupational phenomenon” of burnout, which is a diagnosable condition with real consequences
- Characteristics of burnout: fatigue, exhaustion, negativism, cynicism, and not feeling like you’re doing a good job
- Good mom, bad mom, and how we judge ourselves and each other
- Contributing factors to mother burnout
- How and when burnout begins
- Why parents don’t trust themselves, and how we can empower them
- How to recognize signs of burnout and be aware of your mental health
- The importance of reaching out for help and finding connection
- How certain factors related to the current pandemic contribute to burnout, like isolation, lack of support, and unreasonable demands
- How our culture teaches us to deal with uncomfortable feelings
- How our capacity for empathy and sympathy is stretched
- Long-term effects of chronic stress
- Diana’s book, a new resource with a holistic focus on mental health
Resources:
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In honoring Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month, today’s topic is mother burnout. It’s something a lot of us moms feel, but we often don’t recognize it until it’s too late. Let’s learn more!
Diana Spalding is Digital Education Editor at Motherly, along with being a certified nurse-midwife, pediatric nurse, and mother of three. She wrote The Motherly Guide to Becoming Mama, which was just released. We’ll discuss what burnout means, why it’s important to pay attention, how to recognize the early signs, and what to do from there.
Show Highlights:
- How Diana became interested in burnout
- The facts: 85% of moms don’t feel supported by society
- The “occupational phenomenon” of burnout, which is a diagnosable condition with real consequences
- Characteristics of burnout: fatigue, exhaustion, negativism, cynicism, and not feeling like you’re doing a good job
- Good mom, bad mom, and how we judge ourselves and each other
- Contributing factors to mother burnout
- How and when burnout begins
- Why parents don’t trust themselves, and how we can empower them
- How to recognize signs of burnout and be aware of your mental health
- The importance of reaching out for help and finding connection
- How certain factors related to the current pandemic contribute to burnout, like isolation, lack of support, and unreasonable demands
- How our culture teaches us to deal with uncomfortable feelings
- How our capacity for empathy and sympathy is stretched
- Long-term effects of chronic stress
- Diana’s book, a new resource with a holistic focus on mental health
Resources:
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05/11/20 • 43 min
26: Supporting Black Mothers
Mom and Mind
Jessica A. Walker B.S, RADT
Jessica shares some of her personal story of working through postpartum depression. We talk about some of the stressors that Black, African-American and women of color face during motherhood. Our conversation is a small part of the necessary conversations around how race, ethnicity and culture impact motherhood.
Jessica is a Joyologist, Reseracher & Your New Media Producer works as the president of JAW Research Institute, an online business education institute and social advocacy media enterprise.
Jessica is a standing contributor to California Task Force on the Status of maternal mental health with 2020 Mom, Speaker for stop stigma Sacramento a multimedia projects which aims to reduce stigma and discrimination that face individuals living with mental illness, NAMI California peer support workshop facilitator, Media start youth educator for national inst., Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development volunteer, bridge network helping incarcerated teen mothers, and works along side physician and psychologist to increase cultural competence in service delivery to mothers & ethnic groups.
When SHE ISN'T IN HER CLOSET HIDING OUT eating cookies and drinking milk. You can catch her using social media as a tool to spread awareness, educate the world, teach people how to use happiness in a professional and personal context to make a positive impact in the lives of others, show up in the world and make it happen every day. As a mother of 6, wife, dancer, sister and daughter, daily she suffers from lack of sleep and dehydration among other things but she wouldn't have it any other way.
Author of the forth coming book & Online course Happily Depressed - The Work set to be released in 2017
Her mission statement is Wellness in life & in business. Jessica A. Walker (JAW)
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Jessica A. Walker B.S, RADT
Jessica shares some of her personal story of working through postpartum depression. We talk about some of the stressors that Black, African-American and women of color face during motherhood. Our conversation is a small part of the necessary conversations around how race, ethnicity and culture impact motherhood.
Jessica is a Joyologist, Reseracher & Your New Media Producer works as the president of JAW Research Institute, an online business education institute and social advocacy media enterprise.
Jessica is a standing contributor to California Task Force on the Status of maternal mental health with 2020 Mom, Speaker for stop stigma Sacramento a multimedia projects which aims to reduce stigma and discrimination that face individuals living with mental illness, NAMI California peer support workshop facilitator, Media start youth educator for national inst., Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development volunteer, bridge network helping incarcerated teen mothers, and works along side physician and psychologist to increase cultural competence in service delivery to mothers & ethnic groups.
When SHE ISN'T IN HER CLOSET HIDING OUT eating cookies and drinking milk. You can catch her using social media as a tool to spread awareness, educate the world, teach people how to use happiness in a professional and personal context to make a positive impact in the lives of others, show up in the world and make it happen every day. As a mother of 6, wife, dancer, sister and daughter, daily she suffers from lack of sleep and dehydration among other things but she wouldn't have it any other way.
Author of the forth coming book & Online course Happily Depressed - The Work set to be released in 2017
Her mission statement is Wellness in life & in business. Jessica A. Walker (JAW)
http://www.jawresearchinstitute.com/#bio
Sign up: http://bit.ly/jawMIM
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11/21/16 • 43 min
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