Postpartum University® Podcast

By Maranda Bower, Postpartum Nutrition SpecialistMedicine Alternative Health Health & Fitness Mental Health

Postpartum University® Podcast episodes

March 13, 2022Postpartum Nutrition for Professionals EP 51
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Let’s talk about postpartum nutrition as professionals. This is not a topic that we as professionals are trained on, but we are starting to see a change in this. There are those out there that are standing up and making waves trying to get people to realize the importance of nutrition, especially in the postpartum years.

We as professionals carry a special place in supporting women in postpartum, although there are some that don’t believe it is our job to include and guide our clients in nutrition, I am here to challenge you with that thought. I want you to consider. If not us, who? If not now, when?

Listen in to some of the wonderful guests that I have had on the podcast as they share their experience with going through my Postpartum Nutrition Certification and how it has not only changed their lives and businesses, but also the lives of their clients. If you are ready to start supporting your clients in deep healing through nutrition, be sure to go register now for the 2022 Spring Cohort of the Postpartum Nutrition Certification here.
In this episode, I am sharing:
Why postpartum nutrition as professionals is so important
The changes occurring in science & nutrition
Why I created The Postpartum Nutrition Certification
Stories from a few professionals that have taken The Postpartum Nutrition Certification
Jojo Hogan’s experience
Dominika Buck’s experience
Bethany Gerry’s experience
Sarah Bilger’s experience
Come join us in the Facebook group The Postpartum Circle!
Go to https://postpartumu.com/postpartum-nutrition-for-professionals-ep51/ for more!
Courses, tools, & resources for healing in Mamas & Providers
-Postpartum Repletion(Nutrition) Plan
*BRAND NEW - 12 weeks to whole-body transformation*
-Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness Course + Membership
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
30 min
March 06, 202250th Episode Celebration & Getting Personal EP 50
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Let’s get personal! What better way to celebrate the 50th episode than by answering some questions that we collected from listeners?!
Ready to hear everything from how I navigate researching information, to my beliefs, my relationship that didn’t work out after having my first baby, and so much more?
Come join us over in my Facebook group The Postpartum Circle after you listen.

In this episode, I am sharing:
50th Episode Celebration
Being interviewed on my own show!
Questions from listeners
Navigating the wild world of health…how do I do it?
Where I research
What I look for & how I weed out
Special attention to what pertains to postpartum bodies
Becoming a single Mama after my first baby
Did I get back with my son's dad, or re-marry?
Depression, anxiety, and inability to function after having a baby
How it’s all worked out
How I decided where to start delegating in personal life and business
Where to start looking for support that we all deserve and NEED
Deciding on priorities and delegating areas you are currently showing up that you don’t want to have to as much
Being Christian & ALSO my belief of energy chakras, and moon cycles
What is the optimal spacing between pregnancies?
How do you achieve health in your body between pregnancies and feel when your body is ready to carry another?
Come join us in the Facebook group The Postpartum Circle!

Go to https://postpartumu.com/50th-episode-celebration-getting-personal-ep50/ for more!

Courses, tools, & resources for healing in Mamas & Providers
-Postpartum Repletion(Nutrition) Plan
*BRAND NEW - 12 weeks to whole-body transformation*
-Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness Course + Membership
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(JOIN THE WAITLIST)

- 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
29 min
February 27, 2022How To Heal Your Body Framework EP 49
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Ready to know how to heal your body in postpartum? In this episode, I’m going to share my framework, in a very short amount of time. I’m going to share everything you need to heal your body in the years after having a baby.
Whether you are a mother, provider, or healer supporting women in the years after having a baby, this episode is for you. Listen in to learn about the five-step framework that I use to help heal my clients with depression, anxiety, extreme symptoms, and so much more.
Be sure to listen in, and then come join us over in my Facebook group: The Postpartum Circle.
Go to https://postpartumu.com/how-to-heal-your-body-framework-ep49/ for more!
In this episode, I am sharing:
Sharing my 5 step framework for healing women in postpartum
Functional nutrition
The forgotten aspect of healing our bodies
Physical, emotional, and physiological changes that occur within our bodies
Changes in our gut
Healing of trauma
Creating a healthy environment within our body for healing
Somatic Healing & Nervous System Reset
Nutrient deficiency and inability to process trauma
Sleep & its importance in our lives
Nervous System Reset
Our nervous system & hormones
Our bodies all process trauma differently
Cyclical living and finding your rhythms
Falling in love with our bodies again
Whole Body Support
Come join us in the Facebook group The Postpartum Circle!

Links to episodes in regards to our gut health in postpartum:
Postpartum Nutrition - The Physiological Changes That Shift Your Digestion: Podcast EP5 - Postpartum University
Mind-Body Connection with Logan Spacek, Physical Therapist: Ep40 - Postpartum University

Courses, tools, & resources for healing in Mamas & Providers
-Postpartum Repletion(Nutrition) Plan
*BRAND NEW - 12 weeks to whole-body transformation*
-Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness Course + Membership
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(JOIN THE WAITLIST)

- 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
39 min
February 20, 2022Trauma Healing with Christa Bevan EP 48
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Our guest Christa Bevan is joining us and sharing about a technique that is used called TRE Therapy. It is a tension and trauma release exercise that was developed to help release stress and tension, it also helps create stress resilience for moms, and people in general. This is a technique that I use myself, I teach my clients, and one that even my children use.
Christa is an expert companion to other radical mothers. She is dedicated to consciously breaking cycles of generational trauma and is sharing how she works to do that in this episode.

You can find Christa and all of her links here on her website:
christabevan.com
For full show notes go to https://postpartumu.com/trauma-healing-with-christa-bevan-ep48/
In this episode, we are sharing:
TRE Therapy
How Christa got on this path
Talk therapy, & realizing she also needed to deal with trauma held in her physical body
The physical expression of anxiety
How Maranda was introduced to this therapy
This is something that can be incorporated into everyday
Completing the stress activation cycle within your body
What happens when this cycle isn’t getting completed
What TRE is and what it looks like
This therapy method is all self-controlled
We can’t stop stress from happening, but we can change the way we interact with it
This is a normal process within the body
How animals go through the stress cycle
Our body naturally self regulates
Modern conditioning to fight against that regulation
Resistance creates more stress
TRE therapy allows us to release a lot of the tension and stress we tend to bottle up
Why this work is so important as a mother
Disrupting trauma from your lineage
How that sometimes presents itself
This works for those that don’t identify with trauma too, TRE therapy is good for everyday stresses that we experience as well
Different ways you can learn to do this
To work with Christa, go to her website listed above and reach out there!
Come join us in the Facebook group The Postpartum Circle!

Courses, tools, & resources for healing in Mamas & Providers
-Postpartum Repletion(Nutrition) Plan
*BRAND NEW - 12 weeks to whole-body transformation*
-Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness Course + Membership
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(JOIN THE WAITLIST)

- 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
28 min
February 13, 2022Burnout and Anxiety in High Functioning Boss Moms EP 47
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As high functioning boss moms, it can be extremely frustrating to be struggling with these different postpartum mood disorders, especially when we are typically successful in everything that we do. From running companies, being the boss, having your own job and business, and typically doing all the things, being faced with these mental struggles can be very shocking and discouraging.
I want you to recognize and see that it's okay that you're here. It IS common that you're here, but that doesn’t mean that it is something normal…
It doesn’t have to be your life...it doesn't have to be your normal.
Find relief in the fact that this is something that can be changed, and I am here to help you do just that. You are not alone and I have the resources to help you along this path to healing.

For full show notes & resources go to https://postpartumu.com/burnout-and-anxiety-in-high-functioning-boss-moms-ep47/
In this episode, we are sharing:
The secret club of postpartum
My struggle with being a successful woman and battling postpartum mood disorders
Some statistics for postpartum mental health
The length of postpartum, and why it’s crap
Commonality is never equated with normalcy
Struggles many high functioning successful women deal with
The years postpartum, and HEALING your body
A majority of this is a learned behavior
You CAN change
Living a life that feels amazing within your body
These disorders affect so much more than just the mom
We need a world where women are feeling their best
You have the ability to heal your body, you just need to be given the right tools.
5 recommendations to help high functioning women heal
Come join us in the Facebook group The Postpartum Circle!

Courses, tools, & resources for healing in Mamas & Providers
-Postpartum Repletion(Nutrition) Plan
*BRAND NEW - 12 weeks to whole-body transformation*
-Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness Course + Membership
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(JOIN THE WAITLIST)

- 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
36 min
February 06, 2022When you're a birth professional with PPD/PPA: A Story with Corina Fitch EP 46
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So, what happens when you’re a birth professional struggling with PPD/PPA? The simple fact of the matter is, postpartum depression and anxiety can happen to anyone, regardless of the tools and knowledge you have around to prevent it.
However, being a birth professional, you may experience even more guilt and shame when you are the one struggling. You’re likely thinking something along the lines of “it is my job to help others with this, how can I do that when I’m struggling myself.” Corina Fitch experienced all of that and more firsthand.
She is joining us in this episode to share her experience of PPD/PPA, and how working with me helped her to move forward.

For full show notes go to https://postpartumu.com/when-youre-a-birth-professional-with-ppd-ppa-a-story-with-corina-fitch-ep46/

You can find Corina Fitch here:
Corina’s retreat: https://motherflytribe.myshopify.com/pages/beta-chyrsalis,
Website: www.motherfly.mom
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/motherflytribe/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MotherFly

In this episode, we are sharing:
Introducing Corina
Experiencing severe postpartum depression and anxiety
Hiding it from her community of other providers
Doubt & overwhelm
Hitting a very low place
Hopelessness, then finding me & reaching out
Supporting women in postpartum, and struggling ourselves
Corina’s experience working with me
Nutrition
Shifting perspective
Generational trauma
Where Corina is now after working with me
Corina’s retreat - Chrysalis - & all the details for that (link is below!)
Come join us in the Facebook group The Postpartum Circle!
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
23 min
January 30, 2022Placenta Encapsulation and Consumption, What You Need to Know EP 45
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Let’s address placenta encapsulation and consumption. I get questions regarding this topic VERY frequently. Questions I tend to get in regards to this topic are: “Is this something that's beneficial to us? Does it reduce the signs and risks of postpartum depression and anxiety? Does this have any effect on my breast milk? Is this safe?”…the list goes on and on. So many women report and share how helpful it has been for them, but it is not always an easy decision to make when it’s something you know so little about.
In this episode, I am going to share with you some science behind placenta encapsulation and consumption, and my overall thoughts while addressing the many questions and concerns I get in regards to this topic. If you’re considering consuming your placenta, or just want to learn more about it I highly encourage you to listen to this episode, then come join us in The Postpartum Circle Facebook Group where you can follow up with any questions you may have or if you have consumed your placenta, we would love you to share your thoughts and experience in doing so!
In this episode, I’m sharing:
Consuming your placenta
Frequently asked questions
The idea behind why we think mammals consume their placentas
Hemorrhaging and consuming your placenta
Using this as a support system and preventative for postpartum depression and anxiety
Myths about the placenta
Why encapsulate the placenta?
A couple of poor-quality studies done in the 1900s
Women’s reports on positive results
My postpartum experience with placenta encapsulation and consumption
Taking science, or lack thereof, into account
Nutrients
Hormones
Iron deficiency (anemia)
Anemia - links to postpartum depression
Two studies were done in 2016
Sensitivity of our bodies and systems in postpartum
Pilot Study with Placenta Encapsulation
Sometimes the opposite occurs, it is not for everyone
The need for more, and better research
Do your own research from all resources & do what's best for you and your family

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
19 min
January 23, 2022Rage and Anger in Postpartum | Jessie Ereddia EP 44
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Jessie Ereddia is joining us and sharing the realities of what rage and anger in postpartum means, and what we can do to support ourselves through it.

In this episode, we are going to break down what postpartum rage is, what it isn’t, and some advice from not only two professionals, but two Mom’s who have been there themselves and can help guide you on what to do and where to go next if this is something you find yourself struggling with.
You can find & follow Jessie Ereddia here:
Instagram
Website

For full show notes go to https://postpartumu.com/rage-and-anger-in-postpartum-with-jessie-ereddia-ep44/

In this episode, we are sharing:
Jessie sharing her journey with postpartum depression, anxiety and postpartum rage
The vision we have going into motherhood
Anger in postpartum
Intense out of control feelings and emotional chaos as a postpartum mom
The DSM Five - Postpartum Rage is not yet categorized on this
How postpartum rage relates to mental, emotional changes you’re experiencing
How to move out of the shame and guilt around postpartum rage
How Find someone you can trust and start sharing your story to begin healing your postpartum rage and anger
Explore the anxiety that is beneath that anger
Different thoughts and emotions that create fear and drive rage and aggression
The connection with feeling “unsafe”
How to move out of shame
Reframing your perspective

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
26 min
January 16, 2022Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness EP 43
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What do I mean by reclaiming postpartum wellness? The simple fact is that the understanding of how significant postpartum is and how directly it affects our overall health and wellness has been lost over so many generations.

We are seeing this ever-growing need to reclaim and take back what is ours. This need to really become more of who we are in this postpartum period so that we can be the best mom, community member, partner, and friend. Our world is in need of women who are at their very best. And we are not at our very best if we are struggling with being a mother if we are struggling with our health.

It’s time to make the shift, and get the support you need and deserve to reclaim your health and create a lifestyle that supports you in every way. Join 100’s of Women as they step into this space here, Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness Course + Membership.

We can’t wait to have you join us!

For full shownotes and other resources go to https://postpartumu.com/reclaiming-postpartum-wellness-ep43/
In this episode, I’m sharing:
This medical and masculine approach currently taken with postpartum
Why all things need to be considered within postpartum
Reclaiming postpartum
Postpartum affecting menopause
Becoming who we are meant to be through postpartum
Why so many struggle in postpartum
There is a far healthier and more vibrant way to raise our children
Importance of putting these tools and knowledge to use
Healing is not linear
Creating a lifestyle
Why we need support systems
Turning inward, how this changes EVERYTHING
The health of a community relies on the health of its mothers
Do an assessment friend………where do you want to be?
Come join us in the Facebook group The Postpartum Circle!

Courses, tools, & resources for healing in Mamas & Providers
-Postpartum Repletion(Nutrition) Plan
*BRAND NEW - 12 weeks to whole-body transformation*
-Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness Course + Membership
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(JOIN THE WAITLIST)

- 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
19 min
January 09, 2022Your Brain in Postpartum with Julia Jones EP 42
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Our brains change drastically during pregnancy, postpartum, and while breastfeeding.
Pregnancy brain..... Mom brain..... Baby brain…..
In this episode, Julia and I discuss the many changes that our brain goes through during these transitions, and challenge you to view it in a different manner. Mom brain has been referred to with disdain and frustration because of the challenges it presents. Let’s shift the narrative, and instead focus on the entire picture of "Mom brain". What it is, why we have it, and how important it can be overall. We invite you to further this conversation with us in The Postpartum Circle Facebook group. We'll see you there.
You can find & follow Julia Jones here:
Website
Facebook
Newborn Mothers Podcast
For full show notes go to...https://postpartumu.com/your-brain-in-postpartum-with-julia-jones-ep42/
In this episode, we are sharing:
Introducing Julia
The biological brain changes that occur during these transitions
Physical shrinkage of the brain
Positive aspects of these changes
Research in this area
Changes within our brains with a multitude of children vs. one?
Are the changes permanent?
Living in a patriarchal world
Empathy and Compassion
Heightening of Senses
Julia’s book “Newborn Mothers” (this can be found on her website shared above)
Our brain changes & postpartum depression/anxiety
The drastic changes in society in the last 100 years
The opportunity to change your brain
Intuition vs. instinct
Biological Changes and Environmental Changes
How to encourage some of these changes when fostering or adopting a child
Links to find Julia Jones are listed above!
Come join us in the Facebook group The Postpartum Circle!
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
22 min