drkat, Author at Well Mind Perinatal

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78: Mother Recovering – Momming Sober

Mother's Medical Condition, PodcastNovember 20, 2017610Views 0Likes 0Comments

Annika O’Melia breaks through stigma to share her story about alcohol use in early motherhood and increase awareness about the impact of substance use for perinatal mothers. Annika is speaking out about her experience and has created a podcast, Mother Recovering, that focuses on supporting these mamas. *She talks about the thought process that happens with…

77: Caribbean Mothers & Perinatal Mental Health

BIPOC, PodcastNovember 13, 2017543Views 0Likes 0Comments

Caribbean Mothers and Perinatal Mental Health with Dr. Kendra Flores-Carter One of the important pieces of understanding perinatal mental health, is putting it in the context of culture, immigration and other socio-cultural factors. When we use the culture to inform healing, a depth of relief and understanding happens. Today we will learn a bit more……

76: Perinatal Mental Health & the Military Family

PodcastNovember 6, 2017608Views 0Likes 0Comments

Just in time to honor Veterans Day, we talk with Dr. Melinda Thiam about what life might be like for some military mamas. In this fascinating and necessary discussion, Dr. Thiam talks with about the unique aspects of perinatal mental health in the military family. Dr. Thiam highlights: *The stressors for both for the perinatal mother who is…

75: Expectful – Guided Meditation for Pregnancy Loss & Beyond

Podcast, Pregnancy, pregnancy lossOctober 30, 20171KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Expectful offers guided meditations for all of the transitions through motherhood from fertility, pregnancy, postpartum and motherhood. They heard feedback that many mothers who experienced pregnancy loss, didn’t have guided meditation support they needed. So, they teamed up with Dr. Jessica Zucker, who is well known for her strong advocacy through the #ihadamiscarriage campaign. Together, they made a beautiful…

74: Resilience building in pregnancy & postpartum

Podcast, Pregnancy, pregnancy lossOctober 21, 2017784Views 0Likes 0Comments

When you can really start to understand how stress and trauma affects you on a physiological level and emotional level, you can hold more compassion and understanding for yourself. Nkem Ndefo is on with us today, teaching, informing, shedding light on how to think realistically, holistically about stress. This is totally necessary to understand for pregnancy…

73: Perfection in new motherhood

Podcast, Pregnancy, Pressure / Myths of Motherhood, Stress/ Burnout / PerfectionismOctober 17, 2017737Views 0Likes 0Comments

Do you identify as a perfectionist? Do you feel like things need to be a certain way and if they aren’t, you feel unsettled? How did that affect you when you were trying to conceive, during pregnancy, birthing or postpartum? This is one of those things that really impacts the early stages of motherhood and parenthood…

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