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Are postpartum depression and anxiety unavoidable? Absolutely not! This episode dives deep into practical, empowering strategies that help you prevent postpartum mood disorders. From building meaningful support systems to regulating your nervous system, this episode is packed with actionable tips and insights to help you take control of your postpartum experience.

Whether you're preparing for motherhood or navigating it now, you’ll find guidance on creating a smoother, more joyful postpartum journey. Every professional and provider should know these steps women can take to dramatically reduce and eliminate their risk and shift the way they experience motherhood.

Check out this episode on the blog: https://postpartumu.com/postpartum-university-podcast-ep81/

KEY TIME STAMPS:
 
4:00 Why mood disorders aren’t inevitable

6:45 Hormonal misconceptions postpartum

8:30 The power of a creative and ongoing support system

11:00 Identifying and addressing your specific support needs

16:00 How nourishment impacts mental health and hormones

19:30 Nutritional deficiencies linked to postpartum mood disorders

24:00 Simple tools to regulate your nervous system

27:15 Trauma’s impact on the postpartum experience

30:45 Negative self-talk and its effect on healing

34:00 Modern postpartum healing practices

37:20 Meeting your basic self-care needs postpartum

NEXT STEPS:

• 🎒Download the Postpartum Restoration Method™ Assessment Tool 
• 🧠Perinatal Mental Health Certificate Training
• 🔔Sign up for the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Waitlist
• 👍Rate, REVIEW & share the podcast
• 📱Connect on Instagram!
• 📚Get a Copy of the BOOK: Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness
•  Additional Courses for Providers & Postpartum Professionals 

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By now, most of us know that the maternal health outcomes in postpartum have become a widespread crisis.

Awareness is so important, but today, we're going to talk about the solutions that are needed to make a real change.

We're speaking to Jodi Graves, a postpartum doula, agency owner, and nutritionist with 23 years of experience in the field.

She shares with us the policy changes that need to become a part of the conversation, and the steps we can take to help families experience a more joyful and supported postpartum.

****For more juicy tips, information, and links you absolutely want to check out, go to https://postpartumu.com/postpartum-university-podcast-ep80/ for more!

NEXT STEPS:

• 🎒Download the Postpartum Restoration Method™ Assessment Tool 
• 🧠Perinatal Mental Health Certificate Training
• 🔔Sign up for the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Waitlist
• 👍Rate, REVIEW & share the podcast
• 📱Connect on Instagram!
• 📚Get a Copy of the BOOK: Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness
•  Additional Courses for Providers & Postpartum Professionals 

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Is it possible to truly show up for your children when you’re not showing up for yourself?

With the pressure that comes from having little ones looking up to us, there also comes an incredible gift: the opportunity to connect back to the self.

Today, we’re talking to Lisa Druxman, the founder of FIT4MOM and expert in the field of pre and post natal fitness.

The business and community she has built serve as a testament to the incredible power of a supported motherhood experience and how crucial it is that mothers continue to lead by example.

****For more juicy tips, information, and links you absolutely want to check out, go to https://postpartumu.com/postpartum-university-podcast-ep79/ for more!

NEXT STEPS:

• 🎒Download the Postpartum Restoration Method™ Assessment Tool 
• 🧠Perinatal Mental Health Certificate Training
• 🔔Sign up for the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Waitlist
• 👍Rate, REVIEW & share the podcast
• 📱Connect on Instagram!
• 📚Get a Copy of the BOOK: Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness
•  Additional Courses for Providers & Postpartum Professionals 

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Postpartum recovery and healing was always meant to look like this.

Malaysia has the lowest rates of postpartum depression in the world. They also have a community, government, and culture that deeply values the mother.

Today, we’re talking to Valerie Lynn, an international speaker, author, and trainer on Multicultural Postnatal Recovery Practices.

She’s sharing the Malaysian practices and traditions that have helped them produce the lowest rates of PMADs in the world and why they should be seen as a gift to mothers and families across the world.

****For more juicy tips, information, and links you absolutely want to check out, go to https://postpartumu.com/postpartum-university-podcast-ep78/ for more!

NEXT STEPS:

• 🎒Download the Postpartum Restoration Method™ Assessment Tool 
• 🧠Perinatal Mental Health Certificate Training
• 🔔Sign up for the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Waitlist
• 👍Rate, REVIEW & share the podcast
• 📱Connect on Instagram!
• 📚Get a Copy of the BOOK: Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness
•  Additional Courses for Providers & Postpartum Professionals 

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Preventing illness and kicking it when it happens are both HUGE priorities in my busy family.

While we’ll never be able to avoid getting sick completely, we can significantly reduce how often it happens and how long it lasts.

Preventative care is a lifestyle that comes with so many benefits.

This information is crucial during this vulnerable back to school season, and that’s why I’m here to share the tools and protocols necessary to help yourself and your family stay healthy and bounce back faster.

*** For more juicy tips, information, and links you absolutely want to check out, go to https://postpartumu.com/postpartum-university-podcast-ep77/ for more!

NEXT STEPS:

• 🎒Download the Postpartum Restoration Method™ Assessment Tool 
• 🧠Perinatal Mental Health Certificate Training
• 🔔Sign up for the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Waitlist
• 👍Rate, REVIEW & share the podcast
• 📱Connect on Instagram!
• 📚Get a Copy of the BOOK: Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness
•  Additional Courses for Providers & Postpartum Professionals 

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String together the words home and birth around a group of people and you’re likely to receive some intense reactions.

In a perfect world, all mothers would be able to birth where they feel the most comfortable and safe - freely and without judgment.

Skylar Ibarra is a licensed psychotherapist with an emphasis in perinatal trauma and a home birth mama of 2. She joins us today to speak on the trauma that too often controls this narrative, and the mental and emotional challenges that arise when making the choice to birth at home.

She walks us through setting boundaries, determining our needs, navigating societal judgments, and so much more. This is a conversation you do not want to miss.

Go to https://postpartumu.com/postpartum-university-podcast-ep76/ for more!

Where to find Skylar Ibarra:

Handouts & Exercises
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In this episode, we are sharing:

• Skylar’s early introduction to home birth
• Birthing where you feel the most safe
• Mental and emotional challenges of home births
• Critical societal and family judgements
• Ways trauma can control the narrative
• Needs vs wants vs preferences
• Getting a reluctant partner on board
• Using your own values to determine the path forward

*BRAND NEW - 18 Pages of Free Postpartum Nutrition Handouts* 

- Download the free collection HERE!

Are your symptoms being caused by postpartum depletion, or something else? 

- Take The Postpartum Assessment HERE!

Postpartum University® Training for Professionals:

-Holistic Postpartum Nutrition Training

-Postpartum Nutrition Certification


- If you are in need of support, or have questions you can send an email to [email protected]  OR  you can reach out in The Postpartum Circle Facebook group.


Where to find me: postpartumu.com

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Pinterest

NEXT STEPS:

• 🎒Download the Postpartum Restoration Method™ Assessment Tool 
• 🧠Perinatal Mental Health Certificate Training
• 🔔Sign up for the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Waitlist
• 👍Rate, REVIEW & share the podcast
• 📱Connect on Instagram!
• 📚Get a Copy of the BOOK: Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness
•  Additional Courses for Providers & Postpartum Professionals 

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We need professionals like you.

Together, as midwives, doulas, nutritionists, doctors, chiropractors, counselors, mothers, and more, we can offer a holistic whole body approach to healing the mind, body, and soul of postpartum women everywhere through proper nourishment.

Not only are we effectively changing the lives of mothers and their families, but we are also fulfilling a vision of better care for future generations.

Today, we are SO excited to announce that the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Program is officially open for enrollment! Our previous cohorts have reached women and professionals in over 15 countries.

If you’re interested in how becoming a Certified Postpartum Nutrition Professional can transform your life and business, this is the episode you’ve been waiting for.

Go to https://postpartumu.com/postpartum-university-podcast-ep75/ for more!


In this episode, I am sharing:

• How the PNC put Postpartum University on the map
• What you can expect to learn about health and healing in postpartum
• The massive lack of information out there
• Gaining clarity on how to better serve your future clients
• Becoming a Certified Postpartum Nutrition Professional
• What to do with your new CPPNP credentials
• Common questions, enrollment details, and scholarship opportunities

Postpartum University® Training for Professionals:

- Postpartum Nutrition Certification *ENROLLMENT NOW OPEN*

*BRAND NEW - 18 Pages of Free Postpartum Nutrition Handouts* 

- Download the free collection HERE!

- If you are in need of support, or have questions you can send an email to [email protected]  OR  you can reach out in The Postpartum Circle Facebook group.

Where to find me: postpartumu.com

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Pinterest

NEXT STEPS:

• 🎒Download the Postpartum Restoration Method™ Assessment Tool 
• 🧠Perinatal Mental Health Certificate Training
• 🔔Sign up for the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Waitlist
• 👍Rate, REVIEW & share the podcast
• 📱Connect on Instagram!
• 📚Get a Copy of the BOOK: Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness
•  Additional Courses for Providers & Postpartum Professionals 

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The average working mother in America is unsupported and overwhelmed.

It is a tragedy that starts in the workplace and extends all the way up to government policies and agendas.

Women change profoundly after each birth and baby. To see this process and transformation as a simple inconvenience continues to be a dire mistake.

Our strengths and experiences as mothers amplify our potential as employees and professionals.

Melissa Wirt is the founder and CEO of Latched Mama, a  breastfeeding and postpartum apparel company whose parent-friendly policies are setting a new standard for flexible work.

In our conversation, she doesn’t hold back on the ways our country is failing mothers at the societal and workplace levels. Listen in for the raw truth on going back to work after a baby.

Go to https://postpartumu.com/postpartum-university-podcast-ep74/ for more!

Where to find Melissa Wirt:

Latched Mama
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In this episode, we are sharing:

• How Melissa started the massive brand and mission she has today
• The support and education necessary for successful and extended breastfeeding
• Ways we are failing our mothers in society and the workplace
• Collective and individual trauma around breastfeeding
• Policies that devalue the role of the mother in America
• How business owners can benefit from allowing women to show up as their new and full selves
• Our strengths and experiences as mothers amplify our potential as employees and professionals

Where to find me: postpartumu.com

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Pinterest

NEXT STEPS:

• 🎒Download the Postpartum Restoration Method™ Assessment Tool 
• 🧠Perinatal Mental Health Certificate Training
• 🔔Sign up for the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Waitlist
• 👍Rate, REVIEW & share the podcast
• 📱Connect on Instagram!
• 📚Get a Copy of the BOOK: Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness
•  Additional Courses for Providers & Postpartum Professionals 

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“Bounce back” culture has failed us terribly.

Although the signs that this isn’t working are everywhere, where do we look when stepping outside of the modern norm?

It is this crossroads where we’re given the opportunity to come home to the traditions and cultural practices that have been lost across generations.

The secret to a better way of experiencing motherhood rests in this wisdom.

The way back, however, requires a deep process of discovery and digging back to our roots. Today, we’re here to share our best advice and what we’ve been working on at Postpartum University to help you get started.

Go to https://postpartumu.com/postpartum-university-podcast-ep73/ for more!

In this episode, I am sharing:

• Digging back into our own culture for information can be difficult
• Conversations with our elders usually include many hardships that shifted the way we had to show up as mother
• For traditional practices and wisdom, we have to go back deeper
• Why we desperately need to move away from the modern “bounce back” culture
• Using tradition to get back to the root of who we are
• Where can we go to find this information
• Finding community and asking questions

*BRAND NEW - 18 Pages of Free Postpartum Nutrition Handouts* 

- Download the free collection HERE!

Are your symptoms being caused by postpartum depletion, or something else? 

- Take The Postpartum Assessment HERE!

Postpartum University® Training for Professionals:

-Holistic Postpartum Nutrition Training

-Postpartum Nutrition Certification

- If you are in need of support, or have questions you can send an email to [email protected]  OR  you can reach out in The Postpartum Circle Facebook group.

Where to find me: postpartumu.com

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Pinterest

NEXT STEPS:

• 🎒Download the Postpartum Restoration Method™ Assessment Tool 
• 🧠Perinatal Mental Health Certificate Training
• 🔔Sign up for the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Waitlist
• 👍Rate, REVIEW & share the podcast
• 📱Connect on Instagram!
• 📚Get a Copy of the BOOK: Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness
•  Additional Courses for Providers & Postpartum Professionals 

Send us Fan Mail

The first signs of postpartum depression can often be traced back to pregnancy, and we do NOT talk about it enough.

Pregnancy is joyful, scary, beautiful, and hard work. As is postpartum. As is motherhood.

Whenever hormonal imbalances and a lack of support are present, depression and anxiety will be the natural result.

In today’s episode, we’re talking to Angela Mancini, a Doula, Licensed Therapist, and Perinatal Mood Disorder Specialist.

As a professional who experienced dark days of depression herself, she is here to speak on the stigma as well as the path forward.

Go to https://postpartumu.com/postpartum-university-podcast-ep72/ for more!

Where to find Angela Mancini:

La Luna Counseling
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In this episode, we are sharing:

• The dark days of postpartum depression and how it can develop in pregnancy
• Angela’s journey as a licensed therapist who experienced postpartum mood disorders, as well as the stigma for professionals in this field
• Roots of postpartum depression can often be traced back to pregnancy
• What are the first symptoms to look for
• How to find emotional support before birth and postpartum
• When birth is connected to trauma
• Rewriting the story

Where to find me: postpartumu.com

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Pinterest

NEXT STEPS:

• 🎒Download the Postpartum Restoration Method™ Assessment Tool 
• 🧠Perinatal Mental Health Certificate Training
• 🔔Sign up for the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Waitlist
• 👍Rate, REVIEW & share the podcast
• 📱Connect on Instagram!
• 📚Get a Copy of the BOOK: Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness
•  Additional Courses for Providers & Postpartum Professionals