Kat was so focused on the pregnancy and delivery that she never stopped to think about what would come after. Postpartum depression wasn't on her radar.

Her story begins when her new baby arrived and the joy she had been promised didn't.

Instead, there was a darkness she didn't recognize. Thoughts that didn't feel like her own. A disconnection from her newborn that left her completely lost during what was supposed to be the most beautiful time in her life. Despite being a Coach, Yoga and mindfulness teacher, none of her tools were working.

One of the scariest parts, Kat says, is that many women don't even realize it's happening to them. Shame keeps so many mothers silent. They're afraid to say the thoughts out loud, afraid of what it means if they don't feel the connection everyone tells them they're supposed to feel.

She tells her story softly, but you can feel how fresh the scars still are. Honest, raw, and deeply grounded, Kat reflects on her experience and turns it outward, because more than anything, she wants other women to know they don't have to figure it out alone and that there are many paths to freedom.

Let's be very clear; postpartum depression is not the baby blues. It is a debilitating mental health condition, and too many women are suffering in silence because the people around them don't know what to look for or how to recognize the signs.

This episode is for new moms and the people who love them. Women need the people closest to them to recognize when something is wrong.

This is one woman's real and honest truth about one of society's biggest shames. Let's break the cycle.

The conversation wasn't finished. So we went back in.

Following the powerful episode 3, Cindy Schwartz and Melanie Richards sit back down, this time with Robin Glance, Montreal-based registered Anti-diet dietitian, Health at Every Size advocate, and the woman who will quietly change the way you think about food, your body, and what healthy actually means.

Robin doesn't do diets. She doesn't weigh her clients. She doesn't count calories or sell quick fixes. What she does is help people rebuild their relationship with food, gently, honestly, and without judgment.

In this special episode, Robin brings us the science behind dieting, and talks about what the research actually says about weight and health, how diet culture has been lying to us, and what it really means to nourish our bodies from a place of love rather than control.

This is the episode brings us the science and roots behind Melanie's Fuck skinny culture revolution.

We debunk myths you may have believed as truth your whole life.

Tune in and learn the truth to reclaim your own body sovereignty

Robin's website: https://robinglancenutrition.com/about/

Melanie's website: https://happytreeyoga.com/

The Anti Diet https://christyharrison.com/foodpsych

Fearing the black body; the racial origins of fat phobia https://a.co/d/0iGbhpMS

Intuitive eating: https://a.co/d/0cJgK181

Ayurvedic doshas: https://kripalu.org/living-kripalu/ayurvedic-doshas

The Association for Size Diversity https://asdah.org/

When Mariana's world was shaken by three unexpected words from her husband, her first instinct was to do what she'd always done, give more, try harder, hold on tighter.

What she didn't yet know was that her anxious attachment style had been quietly writing the rules of her relationships her whole life, tracing all the way back to her childhood.

It wasn't until she stopped trying to fix everything around her and turned inward that everything began to shift and along the way, she shared the secrets that helped her find peace and leave old patterns behind for good.

Mariana's story is one of radical honesty, hard-won self-awareness, and a transformation that can only come when you're finally brave enough to look at yourself clearly.

Attachment theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_in_adults?wprov=sfti1

Marianna's LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariannaguenette?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_ios

Lana Burton is an educator, a mom of two, wife and rugby referee & one of the most fiercely honest, unflinchingly real voices you'll hear this season.

She joins Cindy to talk about what happens when you want something with every fiber of your being, but your body betrays you, and no one can tell you why.

Her epic quest to become a mother was fraught with more than a dozen failed rounds of IVF, and then eventually into forced menopause. Lana details very honestly not just the physical but the emotional cost that no one warned her about.

There is a persistent grief she carried in moving through a world that never learned how to hold space for women trying to make a family at any cost.

Lana is unfiltered and unapologetic, but more than anything, she's generous. She's sharing her story because she wished someone had when she needed it most.

You'll feel her frustration and her relief, sometimes in the same breath.

This one is for you if you have ever felt invisible in your pain.

Lana's kids Book

Cindy's website: www.becoached.ca

Most of us have spent years trying to shrink ourselves, and rarely stopped to wonder whether our bodies actually wanted that.

Melanie Richards is the founder of Happy Tree yoga, and the force behind Fuck Skinny, a movement based in reclaiming joy, health, and identity from a culture obsessed with thinness. In this conversation, we talk about what disordered eating really looks like, how clean eating in the name of health and wellness can cause just as much harm, and the quiet devastation of living in a society that tells you that you are not good enough unless you meet its unrealistic beauty standards.

But mostly, we talk about what it means to finally learn to love yourself at any size.

This is a conversation for EveryBody. Literally.

Please note that this is a sensitive topic in which we discuss eating disorders and the devastating potential consequences. Listener discretion is advised.

Melanie's online series starting Monday, April 13: https://onlinecourses.happytreeyoga.com/spring-awakenings

Melanie's website: https://happytreeyoga.com/

Melanie's facebook https://www.facebook.com/melanie.richards.10

The Anti Diet https://christyharrison.com/book-anti-diet-intuitive-eating-christy-harrison

Health at every size: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_at_Every_Size

Cindy's website: www.becoached.ca

Beca is a nurse practitioner, yoga teacher, and author of The Third Option, a memoir centered on the final year of her marriage and its unexpected unraveling.

In this thoughtful conversation, Beca and Cindy explore the lessons she learned, the accountability she found in examining her role, and the power of narrative that led her to her liberation.

It's about so much more than the ending of a 17 year relationship. It's about what's on the other side of the choices we are afraid to make.

What makes her perspective compelling is that it's not the typical post-divorce narrative; she's honest, grounded, and surprisingly full of light.

This episode speaks to anyone standing at a crossroads in their relationships, of any kind, and wondering what freedom might look like on the other side of surrender, and what happens when we take responsibility for our own life and happiness instead of leaving it in someone else's hands.

https://atmospherepress.com/books/the-third-option-by-beca-salmon/

Cindy's website; https://www.becoached.ca/

After 22 years in a corporate leadership career, Cindy Schwartz faced the question many people quietly ask themselves: Is this really the life I want?

She made the bold decision to leave the identity she had built and step into something far more uncertain, but far more aligned.

Joined by her dear friends Hilary and Jenn, Cindy shares the honest story behind that leap, unpacking the deeply personal path that brought her here: from childhood loneliness, to becoming the responsible one, to finally surrendering to a more creative and intentional life as a coach and podcast host.

This is the origin story behind the mic.

Book referenced: https://untetheredsoul.com/

Cindy's website: www.becoached.ca