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…
Postpartum Depression Advocacy
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…