Postpartum Changed My Life
Ready for a new take on your postpartum mental health? I'm Susannah, a licensed therapist and coach and I help postpartum moms take ownership of their mental health and overcome struggles related to stress and anxiety.
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34. What Hostage Negotiations Can Teach You About Postpartum Anxiety & Intrusive Thought Recovery (opens the original)
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Susannah was listening to a true crime podcast while ironing when a hostage negotiator's description of his job stopped her mid-task — and it turned out to describe almost exactly what happens in a fear spiral. In this short episode, she breaks down why the first move in a hostage negotiation is to slow everything down (not speed up), why that same counterintuitive move is actually the first and most helpful step we can take, and what it actually looks like to "put your hands in your pockets" wh
33. What New Moms Actually Need (And Why We Avoid Giving It) with Sarah Cassidy (opens the original)
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We prepare extensively for the birth of a baby — and almost not at all for the birth of the mother. In this episode, I sit down with Sarah Cassidy, author of Swaddled: Stories to Wrap a Mother in Love , to talk about the internal transformation of matrescence, why so much well-meaning postpartum support misses the mark, and what it actually means to be held rather than just helped . Sarah shares her own "no one told me" postpartum story — the surprise of the identity shift, the grief for a forme
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