Podcast
The Mothers’ Hood Podcast
Tune in to raw and honest conversations about motherhood, identity, and the messy beauty of it all.
These are the stories we should have heard growing up, as we navigated pregnancy and motherhood - the real, unfiltered truths of the journey.
Yet, we live in a world where mothers often find themselves isolated, navigating the ups and downs of parenting alone.
Without hearing others' stories, we lack the reference to make sense of our own experiences and the language to express what we're feeling. This leaves many mothers feeling disconnected, lost and questioning if something is wrong with them.
This is the good, the bad, and the ugly of motherhood. This is motherhood in all its complexity.
No highlight reels. No experts or gurus – just real women, sharing real stories. We're in this together.
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Latest Episode
8 - Pre and Post-Natal Mental Health Crises to Weaving a Self-Help Rope with Laura Neilson
Mental ill health, whilst being talked about more today, can still feel like a taboo topic with judgement and shame attached to it.
In this episode, Laura Neilson, shares her mental health crises in both the pre and post-natal periods of her pregnancy with her daughter, Edith. She discusses how this unfolded over her pregnancy, in the immediate post-natal period and beyond and how she found the support she needed to help her to start feeling better.
Listen as Laura and I discuss:
· The pre-natal mental ill health episode including a hospital visit and how this evoked feelings of guilt and failure
· That birthing her way made her feel empowered especially after feeling like she had already failed as a mother and the initially calm post-partum period
· How severe allergies in her baby daughter threw her into another period of trauma leading her into a black hole of depression
· What help she found to pull her out of her black hole of depression and change her thought processes
Laura also shares how anxiety is still a part of her life but that it no longer has the power over her that it used to.
Episode 7
The Long Road of Infertility to Adoption with Melissa Christian
Melissa Christian, shares her story of becoming an adoptive mother after years and years of trying to naturally conceive. This long, lonely, isolating journey of infertility plagued her with self-doubt and judgement and affected all aspects of her life.
