Here's the thing about having kids — it changes everything. Your physical body, your mind, your hormones, your sex life, your sleeping life, what you eat, when you eat, and beyond. Many people don't talk about all the sucky parts of child-rearing because of fear that they are "doing it wrong" or will be deemed "bad parents" but what NOT TALKING ABOUT IT actually creates is mothers' beliefs that "there must be something wrong with me or my kids."

Postpartum anxiety and depression are a huge part of this conversation — and happening more frequently. In the United States alone, approximately 70% to 80% of women will experience, at a minimum, the 'baby blues'. Many of these women will experience the more severe condition of postpartum depression or a related condition. (https://www.postpartumdepression.org)

Many mothers don't know they are experiencing it because they are in the throes of no sleep, new experience, and without a template. In this episode, we talk to Madeline Clair Fisher and her experience of postpartum depression and anxiety. She tells us about doing some preventative work ahead of pregnancy to make sure she set herself up for success, and how her husband actually called out her behavior — "Hey you're not acting like yourself, let's get support." We also discuss her recovery story, having been addicted to drugs in high school. Madeline also shares with us a hard conversation she had with her husband about feeling resentment in their sex life...and what was really underneath that.

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Madeline Clair Fisher: https://www.instagram.com/madeline.clair/

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