Mama Needs A Moment

Mama Needs A Moment

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Mama Needs A Moment episodes

  • Ep. 16 Creating a Supportive Fourth Trimester for Every Mother w/ Dr. Kristin Tully

    Dr. Kristin Tully is faculty in the UNC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a member of the Collaborative for Maternal and Infant Health at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Tully is a medical anthropologist who seeks to enable health by improving health care services over the “1,000 days” continuum of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. She is interested in understanding human needs around the perinatal period of the life course, from the perspectives of birthing parents, infants, and those supporting them.

    Her research addresses topics such as breastfeeding outcomes, mother-infant safety, sleep practices, maternal health, and transitions through health care, to establish more patient- and family-centered care. The objective is to advance equity by identifying metrics for accountability and continual improvement in health systems.

    This episode offers an important conversation about the state of postpartum care in our country. It is so enlightening to hear all the ways Dr. Tully and her colleagues are working to improve care in the fourth trimester and beyond. We hope you leave feeling just as inspired and hopeful as we did.

    Summary:

    • The importance of having an inner purpose
    • Role of medical anthropologist
    • Need to put moms and her key support at the center of the medical system of postpartum care
    • The role of science in shaping how we approach different aspects of motherhood, and assessing who we are using as the “norm” in the collection of data and how that impacts the results.
    • The set-up of hospitals and birthing centers, and how that impacts the system of care.
    • We are just as dependent on each other after birth as we are during pregnancy, it just looks different. The current lack of support in the fourth trimester is unacceptable.
    • The Fourth Trimester Project and the work they are doing to change the healthcare system
    • How language of things like intake forms can make a big difference in what information a mom chooses to share
    • The importance of services like doulas and interpretation services, and the need to better integrate them into the system and provide living wages for the people in those fields.
    • The need to change the standard of care to center the marginalized and oppressed in order to make sure every mom receives the care she needs and deserves.
    • The need for credible, trusted resources for moms and how the formatting and placement of those resources can make a difference.
    • The importance of sharing our story and how we can each drive change in postpartum care by helping other moms know they are not alone.

      • HER Health Collective

      Collaborative for Maternal and Infant Health at UNC-Chapel Hill

      1 hr
    • Ep. 15 Supporting Mental Health Through Writing & Storytelling w/ Kim Hawley

      We are honored to have Kim Hawley as a guest on the podcast. Kim is the founder of Strength Through Story a support group for pregnant, postpartum and adoptive moms that focuses on healing through writing and creative community. She is also the statewide Coordinator for Postpartum Support International in Missouri. Kim is the owner of Kim Hawley Creative, a design business where she works on everything from websites to marketing materials, report and media kit design to event and headshot photography. We also found out (in this episode) that Kim is aspiring to begin her own non-profit. Additionally, Kim is the mom to a very active three year old. In our discussion, you will hear us talk about:

      • Kim’s personal story struggling with mental health and finding Strength Through Story.
      • Most common stories she hears from mom’s and why sharing stories are helpful.
      • Stigma attached to maternal mental health and why it’s hard for moms to talk about.
      • Integrating a busy lifestyle with a healthy mindset of abundance rather than overwhelm.
      • Identifying and navigating the motherhood identity conundrum.
      • Working through the fear of writing and the healing benefits of writing vs. other creative outlets.
      • Kim’s lesson/shift experienced in motherhood so far.

        • Strength Through Story

        Kim Hawley Creative

        Instagram, Facebook

        HER Health Collective

        Kim's reading: "It's Not Always Depression" by Hilary Jacobs Hendel

        50 min
      • Ep. 14 Unpacking Diet Culture & Body Image w/ HER Expert Panelists, Fall Roundtable

        The third HER Health Collective Roundtable of 2021 focused on exploring diet culture and body image issues.⁠ Our quarterly roundtables bring the HER Expert Panelists together to share their knowledge and discuss important health topics that affect mothers. It’s our hope that shedding light on this important topic and having open discussions like this, will help reduce the number of women who are silently struggling.

        The 2021 HER Expert Panelists involved in this discussion include:

        • Katherine Andrew – MPH, RD, LDN – Registered Dietitian Nutritionist – Areas of Specialty: gut health, food sensitivities, hormones, family food dynamics & intuitive eating
        • Dr. Erkada DeRouen – MD – Family Medicine – Lifestyle medicine board certified physician – Associate Medical Director Telemedicine, focus: health equity and diversity and inclusion in the telemedicine and start up space.
        • Dr. Lisa Folden – DPT – Healthy Phit Physical Therapy & Wellness – Mom Life Coaching
        • Kerry Jones – RD – Pediatric and Maternal Nutrition – Milestones Nutrition
        • Dr. Susan Lovelle – MD, MACM – Holistic Wellness – Founder, CEO Premiere Wellness
        • Anna Lutz – MPH, RD, LDN, CEDRD-S – Lutz Alexander and Associates Nutrition Therapy – Non-diet Nutritional Counseling (HAES & Intuitive Eating)

          • Topic Summary:

          • History of diet culture
          • Definition of diet culture
          • Evolution of the “perfect body”
          • Weight bias, social status and power
          • Co-opting of HAES terms
          • Financial influence of diet culture
          • Inflammation and weight, BMI and weight, outdated and questionable research
          • Dealing with statements that promote diet culture and spread fat phobic beliefs
          • The rise of orthorexia nervosa
          • How each expert personally practices body appreciation

            • HER Health Collective

            1 hr 8 min
          • Ep. 13 Being a Confident Mom Raising Confident Children w/ Renee Avis

            In this episode of Mama Needs and Moment, we are speaking with Renee Avis. Renee is a licensed professional counselor and the founder of Renee Avis Triangle Area Therapy, Our Mom Tribe and the Confident Moms Raising Confident Girls Coaching program. She is an expert in guiding moms to identify and understand their roadblocks to feeling/being confident. She helps clients recognize and defeat the negative self-doubt and negative body image that steals joy. Renee assists clients with believing in themselves, becoming connected to their bodies and feeling empowered with guiding their children to be confident and happy. In our discussion with Renee, she shares signs to look for in their children if they are struggling with the onset of an eating disorder. She also discusses building confidence in our children and how to create a world of confident moms.

            • Renee’s story and what led her to this line of work.
            • Signs to look for in our children when they are struggling with the onset of an eating disorder.
            • The biggest struggle moms come to her with.
            • The journey to finding confidence and ensuring our children are confident.
            • The reason so many moms struggle with body image issues and the long-term negative consequences of a poor body relationship.
            • Creating a world of confident moms.
            • Renee’s most challenging lesson in her motherhood journey so far.

              • Renee Avis Triangle Area Therapy, Our Mom Tribe and the Confident Moms Raising Confident Girls Coaching program

              Talking To The Sky by - Aimee Mayo

              HER Health Collective

              50 min
            • Ep. 12 Battling Overwhelm with Baby Steps & Why You Should ‘Eat the Cake’ w/ Dr. Lisa Folden

              Dr. Lisa Folden is a licensed physical therapist and mom-focused lifestyle coach. The owner of Healthy Phit Physical Therapy & Wellness Consultants in Charlotte, NC, Dr. Folden works with clients recovering from orthopedic and neurological injuries. Additionally, she assists busy moms seeking a healthier lifestyle by guiding their food, exercise and wellness choices through optimal organization, planning strategies and holistic goal setting. In today’s episode, Dr. Folden dives into the importance of organization in our lives and how it can help us combat feelings of overwhelm, how to redefine and manage pain to improve quality of life, and navigating through diet culture and learning to embrace your body.

              • The path to embracing a holistic, functional, and integrative approach to health in the medical system and personal lives
              • The ways in which we organize our lives and how it can impact feelings of overwhelm
              • The value of a command center for parents
              • Tips and baby steps for busy moms to prioritize health and wellness in day to day life
              • The importance of a curated social media feed and finding your own hobbies
              • How to redefine and manage pain to improve quality of life
              • Navigating through diet culture and learning to embrace your body
              • How to let go of damaging thought processes and behavioral patterns
              • The struggle of managing emotions as a parent
              • Dr. Folden’s advice to moms - “eat the cake”

                • Dr. Lisa Folden - Healthy Phit Physical Therapy and Wellness Consultants

                Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest

                Dr. Folden is currently watching:

                - Upshaw

                - Queen of the South

                - New Amsterdam

                Dr. Folden is reading:

                - Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings

                - Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elise Resch


                Sponsor, Renee Avis - Confident Moms Raising Confident Daughters, Our Mom Tribe


                HER Health Collective

                1 hr
              • Ep. 11 Nourishing Your Mind & Body While Minimizing Stress w/ Katherine Andrew

                Katherine Andrew is a Registered Dietician with a Masters Degree in Public Health and practices using a Functional Nutrition approach. This means evaluating how a client's body is functioning as a whole unit rather than individual parts. She integrates all parts of health, both physical and mental into her work. Katherine works with clients to identify and address health concerns, navigate food sensitivity, explore body image, evaluate and improve hormone health, maximize stress management, and restore their relationship with eating so they can thrive. Each client is approached individually to help create a realistic and sustainable plan. Katherine dives deeper into her method of helping clients, the concepts of meal mapping, mitigating stress and breaking apart the messages portrayed by society in regard to health.

                • Katherine's path to becoming a Registered Dietician
                • Most common struggle moms come to her with
                • Meal mapping
                • Nourishing the mind and body during stressful times
                • Shifting society's messages of health
                • Instilling body positivity in our children
                • Katherine's biggest struggle as a mom
                • Katherine's advice to moms

                  • Katherine Andrew - Nourish to Flourish

                  Social Platforms: Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram

                  HER Health Collective

                  HER Circle (Mom community by HER Health Collective)

                  54 min
                • Ep. 10 How Moms Supporting Moms will Change Postpartum Care w/ Megan Roberts

                  Megan Roberts is the program coordinator of Moms Supporting Moms, a peer-based support program for moms housed under the non-profit SafeChild NC. She is also the PSI-NC coordinator for the Triangle Region. Megan has dedicated her life to supporting mothers, particularly those navigating postpartum mental health issues. In today’s episode Megan shares her own story of battling postpartum anxiety, and some of the lessons she’s learned from 6 years of offering support to mothers during the fourth trimester and beyond.

                  Summary:

                  • Three Main Tools for Battling Maternal Mental Health Issues
                  • Moms Supporting Moms and the work they are doing for moms in the community
                  • Megan’s personal experience with postpartum anxiety
                  • The stigma surrounding mental health issues and the burden of impossible expectations of motherhood
                  • The need for expanded education around perinatal mood and anxiety disorders
                  • Paid Leave differences across countries
                  • Gap in black maternal care in southeast Raleigh
                  • Ability of mom to bond with baby with a perinatal mood and anxiety disorder
                  • Mommy Wars and questioning the “judgemental” nature of moms versus fear of being seen as not good enough
                  • Using cuss words around the kids
                  • Letting kids make their own mistakes

                    • Megan's reading and watching:

                    Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

                    Mayor of East Town on HBO

                    Important Links:

                    HER Health Collective

                    Postpartum Support International

                    Moms Supporting Moms

                    53 min
                  • Ep. 9 Building the Creative Mind, an Authentic Life and Active Allyship w/ Susie Silver

                    Susie Silver taught in the public school system for 18 years. She's also a professional artist, mom to two children, activist within the LGBTQ community, a senior consultant at The Diversity Movement and wonderful person & friend. The Diversity Movement is a full-service diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) consultancy that includes a team of experts using a customized mix of online learning, tools, events, and consulting services to show businesses and teams how to use DEI practices. The practices are used to drive growth, improve recruiting, and enhance culture.

                    We’re talking with Susie about her work but we’re also talking about the struggles we all face to live an authentic life. She shares her experience of discovering her truth as well as the hurdles and joy she’s faced along the way of listening to her inner voice and becoming her truest self. Susie also gives us wonderful feedback on how to bring active allyship to the LGBTQ+ community within our homes so we can be sure we are raising our children to be inclusive and welcoming. It’s an honest, intimate conversation that we're sure you'll enjoy listening to.

                    In this episode, Susie references:

                    “Little Allies” by Julie Kratz

                    “Sparkle Boy” by Leslea Newman

                    The Diversity Initiative

                    Beyond the Checkbox

                    Susie Silver Art

                    HER Health Collective

                    1 hr 4 min
                  • Ep. 8 Fighting Burnout to Build a Stronger Relationship with Your Child w/ Dr. Sheryl Ziegler

                    Dr. Sheryl Ziegler is a therapist, best-selling author, TEDx Speaker, and podcast host of the popular Dr. Sheryl’s Pod Couch. Her insights on burnout and parenting teens have been seen on The Katie Couric Show, The Jenny McCarthy Show, The Doctors, CNN, Morning Express with Robin Meade, and more. We had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Ziegler to hear a bit about her own personal story, how she’s navigated grief, the lessons she’s learned from raising tweens, and her invaluable insights on burnout and how utilizing a different definition of self-care can help parents take back control of their life.

                    Dr. Sheryl Ziegler - Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

                    Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

                    How to Survive the Loss of a Love.

                    HER Health Collective

                    59 min
                  • Ep. 7 Unpacking Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders w/ HER Expert Panelists, Spring Roundtable

                    The second HER Health Collective Roundtable of 2021 focused on unmasking Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders.⁠ Our quarterly roundtables bring the HER Expert Panelists together to share their knowledge and discuss important health topics that affect mothers. It’s our hope that shedding light on this important topic and having open discussions like this, will help reduce the number of women who are silently struggling.

                    The 2021 HER Expert Panel includes:

                    (the experts in bold were part of this specific Roundtable discussion)

                    • Katherine Andrew – MPH, RD, LDN – Registered Dietitian Nutritionist – Areas of Specialty: gut health, food sensitivities, hormones, family food dynamics & intuitive eating
                    • Emily Chaffee – Certified Birth & Postpartum Doula, Massage and Bodywork Therapist, Certified Educator of Infant Massage, Fertility Specialist, founder & owner Carolina Birth & Wellness
                    • Blair Cuneo – Certified Physician Assistant, Carolina Total Wellness – The Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner
                    • Dr. Erkada DeRouen – MD – Family Medicine – Lifestyle medicine board certified physician – Associate Medical Director Telemedicine, focus: health equity and diversity and inclusion in the telemedicine and start up space.
                    • Dr. Holly Durney – PT, DPT, OCS – Pivot Physical Therapy & Smart Athlete Physiotherapy
                    • Dr. Lisa Folden – DPT – Healthy Phit Physical Therapy & Wellness – Mom Life Coaching
                    • Charryse Johnson – Counselor – LCMHC, NCC – Jade Integrative Counseling & Wellness – certified Prepare/Enrich marriage facilitator – specialized training in trauma through IATP – extensively trained in the Unified Treatment Protocol for treatment of disordered eating.
                    • Dr. Joni Johnson – MD – Pediatrician, Health and Wellness Coach, certified Empowerment Strategist – Areas of specialty: Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Disorder, Autism and mood disorders.
                    • Kerry Jones – RD – Pediatric and Maternal Nutrition – Milestones Nutrition
                    • Paula Kettula – LCSW – Psychotherapist & Transformational Parent Coach – EMDR Therapy, Play Therapy, Sandplay Therapy, AMI Primary Montessori Diploma – “Becoming a Peaceful Parent” host
                    • Dr. Brittany Kopec – DC – Chiropractor – Verve Holistic Health
                    • Dr. Susan Lovelle – MD, MACM – Holistic Wellness – Founder, CEO Premiere Wellness
                    • Anna Lutz – MPH, RD, LDN, CEDRD-S – Lutz Alexander and Associates Nutrition Therapy – Non-diet Nutritional Counseling (HAES & Intuitive Eating)
                    • Nicole Wallace – Counselor – LCMHC- Transformation Counseling & Consulting; former Wake County educator and school counselor
                    • Dr. Sheryl Ziegler – Psychologist – Registered Play Therapist, Author of Mommy Burnout™, TEDx Speaker, Podcast Host of The Dr. Sheryl Show – Specializing in anxiety, depression and chronic stress

                      • Resources stated in this episode include:

                      PSI - Postpartum Support International 

                      Every Mother Counts

                      Renee Avis and Our Mom Tribe 

                      HER Health Collective

                      1 hr 7 min

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